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

By the end of his career, Turner exhibited less frequently, received fewer commissions, and retreated into his work.

Leonard Cohen celebrates his 80th birthday on Sunday and releases a new album next week. He talks to Neil McCormick about what keeps him going.

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.

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!"

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

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.

The dexterity of an artist's technique means the viewer can often be involved in the action of the moving hand as well as the unspoken thoughts that might underlie a painting.

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.

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.