Art lover Warwick Brown joins the art collectors auctioning modern NZ masterpieces.

How a simple grain defines us.

An ex-New Zealand owned painting by Mark Rothko is expected to fetch millions next week.

William Dart finds the NZSO's collaboration with the Modern Maori Quartet has mixed results.

A night on the Floating Theatre makes for an enchanted evening, writes Janet McAllister.

Musician and theatre director Robin Kelly from the Last Tapes Theatre Co, talks about his show 'Valerie'.

Can a performance make us genuinely care about the dying? Dione Joseph thinks so.

Auckland could get its biggest laser light show for the opening ceremony of the World Masters Games

Dance show Castles shows maybe life's mosaic of experiences are difficult to fathom.

Who says you need to be on land to see a show in the Auckland Fringe Festival?

William Dart reviews the APO's latest concert.

Forget the musical Cats, here's a genuine cat show where the feline stars are centre stage if they want

Disappointment with one CD turns to delight for William Dart who is alerted to a composer most of us should get to hear.

APO TO give first performance of composer Christopher Rouse's 2005 Oboe Concerto outside the United States.

Ray Chan is the APO's first conducting fellow, one of the orchestra's many initiatives to bring music to more Aucklanders

Dionne Christian talks to the artist behind a giant installation at Te Tuhi gallery

US author Laurie Frankel tells Jennifer Dann how she didn't have to look far for the idea behind her latest novel

Aucklanders will be the first in the world to see a ground-breaking artwork which brings Antarctica's icebergs to town.

From comedy to science fiction, there are few topics acclaimed New Zealand playwright Stephen Sinclair hasn't brought to the stage.

Carl Goldie, born Kim Sim, was the first New Zealander to be convicted for art forgery.

Theatre reviewer Janet McAllister takes a theatrical trip to the supermarket.

This is a dance show worth rushing to be part of, writes Raewyn Whyte.

Fringe Festival director Lydia Zanetti on how she pulled together a festival without much funding.

Tim O'Brien had just days to turn around an illustration involving "Trump in a hurricane". The hair, he says, was the hardest part.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra launched its main New Zealand Herald Premier series with John Rimmer's Vulcan, a fanfare it commissioned 18 years ago.

Provocative play prompts us to think before we speak.

New Plymouth's Len Lye Centre is struggling to pay its bills, with some sculptures broken and unable to be repaired.

Violinist Chloe Hanslip will play Mozart her own way on her beloved 1737 Guarneri del Gesu instrument.

He's a seasoned professional but for actor Te Kohe Tuhaka, his latest role is something of a debut.

It's a dance show where the audience gets to move, too.