Two rare Indian paintings, which surfaced at auction after being found in an Auckland basement, have both sold for almost $120,000 each.

A group of young children formed the Rangatahi Philharmonia o Tara orchestra, which will play its first concert at the Auckland Town Hall tonight.

Children's author William Taylor has died. He wrote books including Possum Perkins and Agnes the Sheep.

Art lovers should run to Auckland's Viaduct this month for an exhibition of the nation's best photography.

What Olaf Hojgaard finds - and what he becomes - is wide open to interpretation: are all the views misleading or odious or only some?

Two rare Indian paintings have overseas collectors clambering to snap them up, driving up their expected prices.

Mitimiti has its beginnings in choreographer Jack Gray's personal journey in search of a closer connection with his Te Rarawa heritage and marae in the Hokianga.

Two rare Indian paintings, which surfaced at auction after being found in an Auckland basement, have overseas collectors clambering to snap them up.

At the start of this intellectually confronting and complex one-man play, Olaf Hojgaard (Edwin Wright) tells us he was watching the 2011 Tour de France telecast when he first heard about Anders Behring Breivik's politically-motivated murder.

A new documentary about the initial restoration of Auckland's historic St James Theatre will premiere next month.

Auckland's point of difference is not the glories or supremacy of one ethnicity over another, but our place in the Pacific as a smorgasbord of cultures and ethnicities, writes Brian Rudman.

The interactive exhibit is described as a "monumental inflatable structure" which has astounded audiences around the world.

Playwright Aroha Awarau has created a sensitive and engaging drama out of something that is almost unimaginably tragic - the random death of a young man cut down in his prime as an innocent bystander at a police shooting.

Two distinctive pieces by India's answer to Andy Warhol, Bhupen Khakhar, have surfaced from the dust and clutter of a Parnell basement.

Dressed in her black stiletto boots and long elegant locks, Gilda Kirkpatrick is not your stereotypical image of a comic book artist.

The father had two pieces of advice for his son. No motorbikes and no heroin. Lester Hall has toed that line.

The Man Booker Prize short list of six top novels was released last night - but this year the prestigious award does not have a New Zealander among the top picks.

The head of the Christian lobby group Family First said he never demanded the award-winning book Into the River be banned.

This year's Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award was presented last night at Pah Homestead in Auckland to a Hamilton-based pacific artist.

New Zealand's newest poet laureate says his latest accolade is 'very acceptable' but you suspect he'd rather talk about his love of cats of dogs.

A student painter in the UK had completed only twenty similar works when he received an unexpected commission.

Budding artists can create, draw and build at interactive installation at Auckland Art Gallery.

If you are going to do fairies there can be no holding back, so wunderkind English choreographer Liam Scarlett unashamedly mixes.

There was a sense of celebration, marred only by the thudding beats of revivalist worship downstairs. A well-filled Town Hall Concert Chamber hosted an audience keen to welcome home some distinguished young Auckland musicians.

Simon Allan Kerr, 54, has been in and out of prison since he was 15 and is serving time at the Northland Region Corrections Facility, Ngawha.

Hundreds of artworks adorn Auckland, highlighting our culture and diversity, finds Sarah Ell.

Some of us have become cynical about the lure of the exotic, thanks to the loose and fatuous language of the advertising industry.