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.

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Mighty is the pen, paint and illusion.

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

For any follower of fashion, the film The First Monday in May - screening at this year's International Film Festival - will be a must-see.

In 2006 Stelarc, 70, had an artificial ear construction inserted into his arm as an art project.

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.

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.

The splendid dancers of Nederlands Dans Theater's company NDT1 received a standing ovation on the opening night of their Auckland season, an acknowledgement of their stellar performance.

Suyeon Kang, the first Australian to take top honours in the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, has undertaken her winner's recital tour and concerto performance.

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.