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.

It is one of the latest words to be added to the Scrabble lexicon, but it also encapsulates the reaction of some traditionalists to the new list: shoutout.

Misal Adnan Yıldız is the new director of Artspace on Karangahape Rd. The Turkish-born curator spoke to Jennifer Dann.

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

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.

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

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.

Organisers fear for the future of some of the country's literary events as the commercial sponsorship dollar gets smaller for traditional books.

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.

The most popular biographies are those that embrace the subject’s life while assuming little prior historical knowledge on the part of the reader.

Is the unhappiness of beautiful people more significant than that of real people?