Auction houses say their expectations are being exceeded for artwork sale prices, including the record $149 million bid for Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme Qui Marche 1.

Pauly Fuemana's friends and family have farewelled the south Auckland musical legend who sang NZ's biggest global hit.

The worlds of climate change and steamy sex collide ... and a classic is born.

Celebrated author JD Salinger spoke to readers in his own special way.

An art student invited the to Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ripped a Picasso masterpiece after losing her balance and falling into the work of art.

Samoan writer Lani Wendt Young has been commissioned to take down the stories of hundreds of people affected by the Pacific tsunami.

If you had been in Venice just over a year ago and gone to see the elegant Bridge of Sighs, you would have had an unpleasant surprise.

Things get a little rough in the conclusion of Graeme Lay's story of the first surfers on one Kiwi beach.