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.

The world of author and illustrator Dr Seuss is one in which nothing and everything makes sense.

Want to see the impact of digital culture on our visual lives?

Mighty is the pen, paint and illusion.

An image of a hydrangea scores big for photographer Emma Bass, writes Dionne Christian.

Auckland music-lovers are more accustomed to seeing Piers Lane on the town hall stage at the Steinway than under tropical palms enjoying Queensland sunshine.

Auckland Art Gallery is asking people to look closer at the portrait on their grandparents' mantelpiece or check under the bed in the spare room.

Sea of people strip off in Hull and paint themselves blue all for the sake of art.

A pink cycle and walkway and a Mangere warehouse are among projects with a chance of winning the top architecture award.

Get down with some sweet music in the chiefly language and some wicked slam poetry to close down your Maori Language Week celebrations tomorrow.

Street artist Wongi "Freak" Wilson's latest mural boosts his long-established role of lifting spirits in Christchurch.

An artist has turned his back to capture the views behind many of the world's most famous monuments.

Dancers step into a magical world, writes Dionne Christian.

Happy 70th birthday on Monday, Sam, though I've wondered sometimes whether you'd make it this far and I suspect you have, too.

You can ask Scribe about his new play, but veer off topic and you could be in trouble.

Paul Dini has turned a tragic night of fear into an instantly-classic graphic novel.

This afternoon on NZ Herald Focus Police are urging New Zealanders to be vigilant about scammers, the online US retailer causing a cultural stir and an experimental vaccine for the zika virus gets a green light.

They're calling it a revolution in the way we read - and it's not some new piece of technology.

"I'm slightly more blind than Stevie Wonder ... "

The superb retrospective show of photographer Fiona Pardington at Auckland Art Gallery, which finishes this weekend, is a series of essays.

Unfortunately, the performance needed more polish if one was to overlook the conservatism of the programming.

Modern theatre frequently brings together disparate cultures to create vivid and dramatic storytelling and it's certainly true with Auckland's Matariki Festival programme.

If you missed out on the chance to visit Auckland's Pop-Up Globe Theatre, here are a few must-see getaways to get your Shakespeare fix.

The Auckland Art Gallery is showing a small exhibition of lithographs by Honore Daumier that acts as a lively adjunct to the current Auckland Festival of Photography.

The Matariki Festival is gearing up once more, beginning with the unveiling of this year's line-up.