$50,000 winner cuts through exhibition system like a knife, says judge.

Tauranga artist has put her cement "Last Supper" sculpture on Trade Me for $10 million. It's just "waiting for the right place to stand for all to see!"

Booker-prize-winning author admits she thought about killing the British PM when she found herself within shooting range of her in 1983.

A world record has been set at auction for a piece of Maori art, which fetched more than $2 million.

The roof of a school's library entrance will be only the second public structure designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the Southern Hemisphere.

Phoenix palm is threatening the financial viability of the Pah Homestead in Auckland, the permanent home of Sir James Wallace art collection.

Take international works by masters Renoir, Michelangelo, Tissot, Picasso and Millais, as well as a cache of highly prized New Zealand works by Colin McCahon and Charles F. Goldie.

A controversial artist's portrait of a convicted murderer could be destroyed if allegations of copyright infringement are pursued through the courts.

There's a term used in New York to describe a certain type of businessman: the $50 million man.

Despite the temptation to stay home and catch Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Glennie at Olympus concert streamed live, there was almost a capacity turnout at the Town Hall.

Go play with the 12m of white Lego in the Auckland Art Gallery main atrium - it's great fun, it's free and it's there for six months.

Goethe was outraged by the suggestion that Mozart merely composed Don Giovanni "as if it were a piece of cake or biscuits stirred together out of eggs, flour and sugar!"

A painting of the coastline around Otago Harbour populated by macabre medieval demons and dragons has won the Paramount Award in last night's annual Wallace Art Awards.

A new circus with characters including the 'Half Naked Asian Dude Wearing Pigtails from Japan' will begin touring New Zealand for the first time later this year.

It didn't take a historian to know the painting was of Gallipoli, but it did take a gallery director turned art detective to work out who painted it.

A 3D-printed nose guard has earned a Wellington student the top prize in the New Zealand leg of a global design competition.

Thousands of Kiwis will witness the dazzling performers in Cirque du Soleil's Totem in its five-week Auckland season.

Portraits of well-known New Zealanders painted on to skateboards are fetching up to $10,000.