On stage, she's the leader of a sex strike, aimed at ending a 20-year-old war. Off stage, Amanda Billing can't fathom such a drastic move.

Australian highway dominated by nine-metre-tall metallic gnome from the same Kiwi sculptor behind the Auckland art work that many thought looked like a penis.

One of the most anticipated books in the past decade will be released in New Zealand and around the world today.

Shock for fans of beloved classic as author Harper Lee turns Atticus Finch, the champion of racial justice, into a bigot for sequel.

No need for shivering at home in the mid-winter blast, you can find some seasonal sparkle in our top five list this weekend.

After a 12-month hiatus, the country's premier book awards will return in 2016 with a new structure and an annual fiction prize of $50,000. Do you have a favourite novel by a New Zealand writer?

Rain is predicted, so we can legitimately head indoors for some winter treats.

A meandering, ever-changing river is the analogy Rangihiroa Panoho uses for his overview of Maori art

Public galleries are often in close touch with their immediate communities. The festival of Matariki is supported by exhibitions at three galleries.

Sean Plunket's comments describing Eleanor Catton as an "ungrateful hua" and a "traitor" were not in breach of broadcasting standards.

After five years of lighting up Auckland's Western Park, Art in the Dark will not go ahead this year due to a lack of funding.

Don't know what to do with yourself this weekend? We've handpicked the top five things to do around Auckland.

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.

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.

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.