The next time your teenage children refuse to tidy their room, they might be able to claim it's art. An exhibition opening this week

It all started when author Drew Magary took a hike. "The beginning of the book is something that happened to me. Not the gross parts,"

Wellington artist Shannon Te Ao has won this year's Walters Prize, taking home a $50,000 cheque.

Whanganui District Council opened New Zealand Glassworks to bring together professional glass artists and the community.

A writer says she was "dumped on from a great height" by the literary establishment, after penning a report on why people are not reading Kiwi fiction.

COMMENT: My father's animal drawings are finally framed and up on our walls, 24 years after his death in 1992.

International medical experts have announced that Van Gogh had an alcohol problem and suffered from repeated breakdowns

Greg Fleming rounds up the latest in crime fiction.

Colin McCahon's painting 'The Canoe Tainui' has set the record by selling for the most expensive painting sold at auction in New Zealand.

Andrew Little has been pictured as he's never been seen before in a piece up for judging at the Wallace Art Awards.

Tim and Sherrah Francis amassed the greatest names in New Zealand art for more than 50 years. Kim Knight talks to their son about the sale of his parents' unique collection.

As I child, I remember having terrible stage fright. I was terrified of drama class and anything that required me to speak in front

Kanye West's Famous sculpture has a $5.49 million price tag.

Students being taught new STEAM concept, an acronym which mixes science, technology, engineering and maths, with art

John Reynolds is tackling one of the big mysteries of New Zealand art. What happened when Colin McCahon disappeared from the Sydney

The area's creativity is on show, writes Sara Bunny.

Two teens have used their artistic flair to pay tribute to a pair of Olympian alumni of their Auckland high school.

She may have just turned 80 but one of our most acclaimed authors has no plans to put down her pen.

TJ McNamara checks out new exhibitions from Elliot Collins and Daniel Crooks

A highly-regarded Colin McCahon work could fetch a record-setting price when it goes under the hammer for the first time in almost half a century.

City is running out of time for full-size statue of celebrated poet.

The Herald's arts and books editor, Dionne Christian, is the inaugural recipient of the Arts Access Media Award.

COMMENT: If you're looking to read about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child without any spoilers, read this instead.

The Richard Deacon sculpture Nobody Here But Us has the highest insurance value of any work in Auckland Council's art collection.

Exhibition pays homage to genius, writes Dionne Christian.

When thieves broke into the studio of the great New Zealand painter Peter McIntyre, they stole unfinished paintings.

New app will do for art what Google Earth did for maps.

A Grahame Sydney painting delivered 19 years after it was commissioned is expected to reward its owner's patience by fetching more than $100,000 .

Topping the list of favourite Kiwi reads this year was the hard-hitting romantic novel turned controversial film Me Before You.

Schwartz had much to celebrate.