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.

Auckland opera audiences have become accustomed to having Verdi and Puccini presented through the eyes of female directors from across the Tasman.

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!"

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.

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.

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

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

After the disappointment of the NZ Symphony Orchestra's last visit, its Friday concert was a welcome return to form, writes William Dart.

Stars of stage and screen will fly in to pay tribute to the modest Kiwi vocal coach and mentor who helped put them on the map.

With a cast of 25, a live band, dancers and video projections, The Tautai of Digital Winds presents a truly epic piece of community-based theatre.

Radio New Zealand are cutting their payments to fiction writers.