After art connoisseur Ambroise Vollard died in a 1939 car crash, only a small part of his vast collection was ever accounted for.

Actor and director Simon Prast is standing for the Super City mayoralty to challenge the heavyweight contenders, John Banks and Len Brown.

A homage to the Maori showbands of the 1960s, the Titanics have all the harmonies, musicality, glamour and humour of their heroes.

MacPlanet blogger Mark Webster talks to artist Marcia Lyons about her work.

It's hard to pin down Jane Smiley's style as each new book is so different from the last.

Plenty of buzz in the publishing world surrounds this sprawling, post-apocalyptic novel that's being heralded as one of the year's big releases.

The Maori New Year festival Matariki gets bigger every year. This year Taonga Whakaari: The Inaugural Maori Playwrights Festival has been added to the calendar of events in Auckland and Papakura.

The good news for Stieg Larsson addicts: two unpublished manuscripts have been unearthed in his native Sweden.

American billionaire Josephine Robertson, a major benefactor to the Auckland Art Gallery, has died.

Seizing the dark heart of the show Ross Girven captures the haunted nature of Sweeney Todd's psychosis.