The work was once owned by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern opens up a new chapter of her career.

The sale of Salvator Mundi has smashed old art auction records selling for $656 million.

Teaching art in low-decile schools gets results. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The now annual Auckland Arts Festival gets a revamp which includes a new music precinct.

Photographer captures stunning images of a rarely seen side of NZ - the country at night.

Out of tragedy has come a triumphant piece of music which celebrates hope and new life.

Children's author and comedian David Williams will be in New Zealand next month

Seasoned authors are on good form while a Wellington novelist's debut pleases.

Eminem vs the National Party case has international ramifications.

It took months to figure out why books were disappearing and reappearing in odd places.

A choir signals the start of the Tauranga Arts Festival. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Auckland artist Jeremy Kyle says Jonah Lomu painting is his best work yet.

Monet's garden at Giverny has remained unaltered for decades.

Greg Fleming on the new Colin Harrison, Paul Cleave, Lynda La Plante and Tess Gerritsen

The Play That Goes Wrong does - nearly - everything right, writes Roger Hall.

Ten minute portrait artists wow crowds in central Auckland.

Find out what designer Emma Kaniuk is up to on her weekends.

Stage adaptation of Joy Cowley's Mrs Wishy Washy is perfect school holiday entertainment.

Interactive Hamlet video game stage show comes to Auckland for school holidays.

Old sketch sitting in a private collection for 150 years reveals more about the Mona Lisa.

The Kiwi songstress has won her second Silver Scroll for hit song Green Light.

The Pop-up Globe will be back in Auckland this summer.

From 1000 authors in more than 800 events, four Kiwi authors took flight in Edinburgh.

Now winning rave reviews in Melbourne, Pop-up Globe announces its third Auckland season.

A New Zealand classic gets a sequel which shows it still resonates, writes David Hill.

Siobhan Harvey rounds up the latest poetry books released in New Zealand.

Janet McAllister visits Tupu Youth and Manukau libraries on her library quest in Auckland

Theatre attracts more people than sport bar rugby so we should celebrate, says playwright.

New Plymouth's shorefront Wind Wand has had its light knocked out by lightning.