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Preview: Auckland Art Fair
Watch a selection of artists and their works from this week's Auckland Art Fair.
The Auckland Art Fair runs from Wednesday to Sunday at The Cloud. More details here.

A beginner's guide to buying art
Knowledge is power when it comes to buying art, finds Joanna Mathers.

Moving pictures from the world
Chilean photographer Tomas Munita's poignant work is one of the standouts of this year's World Press Photo exhibition, currently showing in Auckland.

Janet McAllister: North Shore as you've never seen it before
Artist Gabriel White got stopped by the police while filming Oracle Drive, his leisurely one-hour ode to the poetic meanings of Albany (yes, Albany).

We could make movies
Dionne Christian previews a school holiday course of film-making fun for youngsters with ambitions.

Keeping kids amused
School holidays start this weekend, to it’s time to find some wintery treats to keep the ankle-biters amused.

Norway: Humanity - harsh and sweet
David Hill joins the trail of people who have gazed at or shrunk from a prolific Norwegian sculptor's work.

Nuenen: In Vincent's footsteps
Liz Light follows the trail of a tortured artistic genius to a quaint Dutch village.

My happy place: Kahurangi Maxwell, kapa haka performer
My happy place is kapa haka. I've grown up in kapa haka, so it's defined my life.

The complexity of collage
'I liberate photographic fragments from their original snap-and-capture setting and reposition them in the space of art," is Peter Madden's description of how he arrives at his fascinating collages at the Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Michele Hewitson interview: Ted Dawe
Having never before met a polluter of the moral innocence of youth, I have no idea whether the author Ted Dawe is an unusually engaging example of one.