Picasso may be one of the most familiar names in modern art. A new Auckland exhibition asks whether, behind the fame, there is still something left that can surprise us.

A trip to Clyde to collect a writing prize for Zealanding co-founder Santiago Bonhomme became a larger story about lawyers, words and what can happen when a local business decides to invest in the cultural life of its community.

The 2026 Nobel Prize recognises a writer who has spent decades making ancient literature feel intimate, unstable and completely contemporary.

Edith Collier returned to New Zealand with an artistic language shaped by European modernism. It would take her country decades to understand just how far ahead she had travelled.

Central Otago writer Jillian Sullivan reflects on loss, memory and the quiet responsibility of carrying on.

An imagined geography found a real one. On Hobbit Day, Zealanding reflects on how Middle-earth became attached to the landscapes of New Zealand.