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Mike Tyson took to social media to share a hilarious AI produced portrait Fans were left stunned and quickly ... resemblance to Tyson - with identical facial details including his Maori face tattoo - ...
A BBC TV presenter is selling her 19th century photographs of Maori taken by Elizabeth Pulman, possibly this country's first professional female photographer. The 12-lot photographs are estimated ...
He returned to New Zealand in 1898 and with his former tutor Louis John Steele worked on a number of paintings including the arrival of the Maori in New Zealand. He opened his own studio and became ...
The reaction was loud, swift, and viral. When some Maori lawmakers, led by the country's youngest member of Parliament, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, launched into a haka, a ceremonial dance, in protest.
New Zealand has long been known for its progressive policies, including efforts to correct and address historical wrongs against its indigenous Māori population. But as Ali Rogin reports, a new ...
The painting, sold for NZ$3.75m (£1.7m), was first shown in Paris, France, in 1939 and shows a kaumātua (tribe elder) with an elaborate moko, which is the traditional Maori system of tattooing ...
An oil painting of Maori elder Wharekauri Tahuna by Charles Frederick Goldie sold for a record-breaking $3.75 million, becoming the most valuable Maori portrait in New Zealand art history.
It is the finest portrait of a Maori elder we have seen in the many years we have been handling Goldie paintings. “We had an incredibly wide interest in the painting before it was even included ...
Thoughts of a Tohunga, a portrait of Wharekauri Tahuna, a Ngāti Manawa tohunga or priest, was painted by Goldie in 1938 and sold at the auction at the International Art Centre in Parnell for more ...
Thoughts of a Tohunga, a portrait of Wharekauri Tahuna, a Ngāti Manawa tohunga or priest, was painted by Goldie in 1938 and sold at the auction at the International Art Centre in Parnell for more than ...
A portrait of a Maori man by a renowned New Zealand artist has sold at auction in Lichfield for £1,800. The work by Vera Cummings will return to the artist’s homeland after being won by an online ...