Tim Wilson's impressionistic landscape of Doubtful Sound was immediate hit with son of the founder of UAE.

A Maori Harry Potter may be on show at this year's Te Tai Tokerau Kapa Haka Festival thanks to a new talent section.

We're all about Waiheke this weekend. We talk to some of the musicians who'll be at Easter's Waiheke Jazz Festival.

La Cucina dell’Arte beckons us to peep through a keyhole into the world’s worst restaurant and open the doors to a topsy-turvy, pizza-flipped joint where servants become masters, candles and crockery take on lives of their own and spoons play a tarantella on wine bottles.

Overall, I enjoyed the production but, on reflection, would probably only give the performance six out of 10, writes Peter Bromhead.

Funny, sexy and feminist all at the same time, Australian cabaret star Meow Meow (Melissa Madden Gray) delivers wonderful frivolity.

An artist wants to get her fish sculpture out of Fonterra's soon-to-be vacated Auckland head office.

The makers of this show have given themselves a challenge: they've attempted to adapt what is primarily adult literature for 4-8-year-olds.

A post-postmodern diva is about to take over the Auckland Arts Festival's Spiegeltent with her take on a Hans Christian Andersen folk tale.

Ahead of this weekend's Armageddon Expo in Auckland, Ethan Sills takes a look at the rise and rise of cosplay.

Two Shortland Street starts will don wigs, make-up and bespangled evening wear to join Dragon's Diva Den as special guest female impersonators.

Encounter the sacred beauty of the forests of Fiji, the Solomons, Samoa and Aotearoa at Marama.

More than 10,000 tickets have been sold to the opening night of one of the hottest events on the Auckland Arts Festival calendar.

The last major painting by New Zealand artist Charles Frederick Goldie described as a "rare national treasure" is expected to sell for more than $1 million.

New Zealand Post, struggling with falling mail volumes, has put its art collection up for sale.

Auckland Arts Festival is a celebration, a time to come together each year as a community to share in the spirit and creativity of artists, and to celebrate our place in the world.

One of the more unusual subterranean features of corporate Auckland life is no longer accessible.

Sistema Aotearoa’s flagship orchestra, Rangatahi Philharmonia o Tara perform ‘Kafisi Niue’, a traditional Niuean song.

In part 3 of our Arts in Auckland coverage, Dionne Christian looks at how you try to include everyone.

With high-profile regional facilities in central Auckland - not to mention the lion's share of festivals - is there arts and cultural life in the 'burbs?

What does it mean to have a community art centre in your neighbourhood? Can it really change lives? Sosaia Fatani, a 15-year-old Tamaki College pupil from Glen Innes, is proof it means a lot.

Is Auckland now the city of arts? Dionne Christian investigates in a five part series that starts today by looking at arts & the economy.

Ahead of a new exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Act, David Herkt reveals what it was like to grow up gay in the 1970s, while Sam Brooks explains what it's like today.

Nearly 7000 aspiring artists packed into a convention centre to fight for a place at a Chinese art university.

A Wellington auction house is preparing to put some of the country's best paintings up for sale, including a Colin McCahon expected to reach more than $300,000.

Rare pictures taken by possibly New Zealand's first female photographer are being put up for sale.

Fine lead performances in revival of clasic Lloyd Webber musical help make local production a huge achievement.