Auckland-based artist Benjamin Work painted a Manhattan mural that activates the narrative history of a Tongan club in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. by Allison Meier November 12, 2018.

Now an ancient bone tattoo kit from the Pacific island nation of Tonga is providing researchers with more than an inkling into the rich history of Polynesian body art, a method so indelible ...

Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery is celebrating traditional Tongan art forms reimagined through a contemporary art lens by two celebrated Tongan artists – Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck and ...

A Tongan artist is critiquing artificial intelligence while using the technology in her heritage art form of ngatu tapa. Auckland’s Tui Emma Gillies’ artwork includes tapa cloth (decorated ...

On the first floor of 4A, a pile of cinder blocks forms the beginnings of a wall; projected onto it is Vea's 2013 video artwork 29.09.2009 Tribute to Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

Telly Tuita's work, The New Arrival of the Old King I, 2001.(Image: Telly Tuia/Jodie Barker)Having left Tonga as a child, his art practice connects him to his ancestral homeland.