Canadian violinist Karen Gomyo performs for the first time with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Dunedin this month.

Art flippers are targeting masterpieces as a French painting gains 220% at auction.

Street artist Bezt painted a woman lying in a forest clutching arrows protruding from her stomach on a wall in the Scenic Circle Southern Cross Hotel car park.

Move over trivia night. The fashionable way to hang out in a London pub these days is with a pencil in one hand, a pint in the other and a naked person in front of you.

I feel good but I don't want to live past 90. I've seen people do that and I've thought, "Uh-oh, that's no fun."

Rachel Bache takes on the excitement of Vivid Sydney, here are today's highlights from the festival.

A pair of horses which once stood outside Adolf Hitler's grandiose Reich Chancellery in Berlin has been recovered by police probing a Nazi black market art ring.

A record-breaking estimated festival audience of 60,000 meant author-signing queues up to two hours long. Janet McAllister reports.

Comedian and bestselling children’s author David Walliams recounted how the inspiration for one of his villains came from his experience judging Britain's Got Talent.

Now it is sold it is less likely than ever to be reunited with its 14 sisters in the "Women of Algiers" series.

An artist in a legal dispute with his long-term agent has been accused of incorrectly recalling what happened to his artworks.

Alan Cumming says he has been surprised at a surge of support for his writing a personal memoir in which he detailed the vicious sadism of his father who died in 2010.

A dispute over the sale of a leading New Zealand artist's work has seen several high-profile names in the New Zealand art world dragged to the High Court.

A vibrant masterpiece by Pablo Picasso, painted as an elegy to his friend and rival Henri Matisse, is predicted to set a world record for an artwork sold at auction.

Writers protest Hebdo prize Criticism of the PEN American Centre's decision to honour the French magazine Charlie Hebdo continues.

Kiwi author Nalini Singh has sold more than six million books in 20 languages, making the New York Times bestseller list 25 times. She talks to Jennifer Dann.

A portrait of Sam Smith by a Kiwi artist has gone viral on social media after the music superstar shared it with his 3.6 million followers on Instagram.

Stephie Key reveals the inspiration behind her risque creations - "strong, beautiful, sensual and powerful women".

An art exhibition with an Anzac twist is paying tribute to the Cook Islands soldiers who served in World War I.

When Richard Stowers published his first book about the Gallipoli campaign in 2005 he knew he had more to say.

A couple of years ago, Chris Finlayson, then culture minister, tooted his bugle and heralded "a golden age for the arts in New Zealand". It doesn't feel very golden today, writes Toby Manhire.

Tourettes, real name Dominic Hoey, is a local poet, rapper and spoken word performer. He talks drugs, politics, Grey Lynn and more with Jennifer Dann.

German writer Gunter Grass passed away in Lubeck, near the farmhouse where he lived with his second wife, Ute. He was 87.

Budding Kiwi artists will next week have the chance to wow a top Weta Workshop designer.

Bridget van der Zijpp’s new novel explores the fleeting, dangerous side of fame.