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When prominent New Zealand artist Rita Angus painted a self-portrait in Wanaka in 1939, little did she know the image would become the catalyst in arts patron John Charrington's dream to build a multimillion-dollar art gallery in the town.

A University of Otago art historian says he is shocked and feels "a sense of fascinated horror" after four New Zealand artefacts entrusted to a British museum turned up for sale on the open market.

Transforming someone else's junk into a kiwiana treasure is a pastime and a passion for Cathie McCarthy.

The late Dunedin artist Chris Meder has been honoured at New Zealand's most prestigious outdoor sculpture awards.

Barry Mackenzie wishes his late wife Else could see his exhibition at the Forrester Gallery in Oamaru.

The harbour mouth molars in Portsmouth Dr are now illuminated at night.

A Queenstown art gallery has come to the rescue of a new Christchurch gallery destroyed in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake which struck Canterbury on September 4, just before the owner was set to move in.

In the appendix on page 17 of Creative New Zealand's "Review of Recurrently Funded Organisations" it is written in black and white: "Support is available for at least three theatre companies to create and present high-quality New Zealand theatre: one in each of Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington".

A painting of houses on Dunedin's Dundas St with chairs and couches outside is the overall winner in this year's Yellow Art Awards.