Cool and Collected

In 1916, Dunedin made international headlines when the SY Aurora, one of Ernest Shackleton's two Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (ITAE) ships, docked at Port Chalmers for repairs.

While most people know New Zealand to be the land of birds, few are aware that it's also a special place for lizards or mokomoko. There are 63 native species of skink and 43 native species of gecko...

The exhibition World View, presently on display on the ground floor of Dunedin Public Art Gallery, takes a tour through time and place using works from the gallery's permanent collection.

Most people consign junk mail to the recycling bin without a second thought, but at the Hocken Collections, University of Otago, it is actively collected, carefully organised by year and stored in...

Sidney Ignatius Joseph Wolf was said to be the most talented musician in Dunedin in the early years of the 20th century.

Moving-image art and digital video has become an important part of gallery collections, writes Lucy Hammonds.

In ancient Greece it took a special artist to portray the goddess of sex, Aphrodite, as a fully naked female, writes Robert Hannah.

It is rare for a blockbuster exhibition to get closer to New Zealand than Melbourne. In 2019, though, art lovers can at least look forward to a feast of works by our most famous expatriate painter,...

A classic piece of communications technology stands outside Olveston, writes Jenny Longstaff. 

A rare treasure helps tell the story of our first "talkie", writes Anna Blackman. 

An exciting new suite of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and netsuke have recently been installed in the "Japan" section of the World View exhibition, which is now on display in the ground floor galleries...

Putting pen to paper once involved other bits and pieces as well, Moira White writes. 

In the "Suffrage and Beyond" exhibition now showing at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum stands a fine example of a totalisator machine, an intriguing device once used for betting on horses at local race...

The camera is trained on the side of a typical suburban weatherboard house; hugged by a low box hedge, unswept leaves are scattered on the adjacent footpath.

According to Olveston's records, a colourfully embroidered textile in the Theomin family's collection is the only known example of its type on public display in New Zealand.

In 1873, the Otago Provincial Council appointed captain F.W Hutton as curator of Otago Museum. Turns out they made a wise choice, writes Rosi Crane.