The Tate has been ordered to return a valuable Constable painting and criticised for failing to adequately research its background after it emerged the work was looted during the Second World War.

For sale: hexagonal house in quiet position near top white-baiting lagoon in the heart of the South Island's West Coast.

Hello and welcome to my final Herald column. Please sit down or if you're already sitting down, please stand up.

Wanganui artist Julian Priest will watch his satellite being launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral at 10.41pm on Sunday.

A comedy promoter has apologised for dropping a female comic from a bill after claiming to have come under pressure from a venue to reduce the number of women he had booked to appear there.

Bob Orr calls me - twice - with afterthoughts. "I'm not very good at interviews," he explains, and his tone is apologetic, as though he's let me down.

Stephen and Karen Pearson may have the only home in New Zealand that could double as an art gallery.

A New Zealand illustrator is set to exhibit her work alongside the world's most famous street artist at an exhibition in the United States next month.

Illustrations by Henrietta Harris, who's work is featured in the Insiders exhibition at Robert Fontaine Gallery.

Watching Victor Rodger's hit play Black Faggot gave emerging theatre writer, director and producer Bruce Brown an idea.