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.

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.

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.

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.

The handbrake is set to be pulled on the Real Art Roadshow which has visited schools around NZ for 10 years - unless someone new grabs the wheel.

From rampaging dinosaurs and Maori myths to Shakespeare and social issues, our best writers for children and young adults tell stories about them all.

In book publishing, there is James Patterson - and basically everyone else.

New Zealand artist Maurice Bennett crafted unique portraits of celebrities from pieces of toast.

Abstract art is showing new vitality. It can be Classical or Romantic, poised and precise, or energetic and expressionistic.

He's a doctor who writes novels in his spare time. He teaches writing, is developing a cosmetics range and doing a PhD. Is Sharad Paul NZ's busiest man?

COMMENT: I'm going to selectively quote from a Pablo Neruda poem titled To Wash a Child.

Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America includes art from the late 1960s to the present created by artists from eight different countries.

Local photographer Julia Glover has experienced the excitement of Africa without leaving town.