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Mark Amery selects some innovative Covid-inspired Aotearoa online arts experiences to enjoy while in lockdown.

Ross Giblin/Stuff Dowse Art Museum director Karl Chitham is the judge of this years National Contemporary Art Award. (File photo) Avant-garde artists from around New Zealand are being invited to enter their works for one of the country’s top modern arts prizes. The $20,000 National Contemporary Art Award regularly attracts art that challenges the viewer and compels them to consider social and environmental issues, as well as the very nature of what constitutes art. Entries open on Thursday ...

A new sculpture by Sorawit Songsataya features a dead moa installed in the Christchurch Arts Centre. A dead moa lies among the historic buildings in the Christchurch Arts Centre, surrounded by native birds looking on in mourning. An emotional and colourful new sculpture by Wellington artist Sorawit Songsataya has been installed in the centre as part of the ongoing Scape Public Art festival, which began in October. The sculpture, called The Interior, features a life-size blue moa on the ground...