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.

Auckland missed The Hanging Sky, the recent survey exhibition of work by Shane Cotton that toured New Zealand and Australia.

A sculpture of a half-naked, sleep-walking man in the middle of a college campus has drawn hundreds of complaints from students.

Playing with her dad's old camera as a youngster led to a full-grown passion for photography for Auckland teenager Cordelia Norris.

Jobs to go as council takes over Shore entertainment centre and its $500,000 debt.

For two decades, Martin Lang enjoyed what he thought was a Marc Chagall masterpiece hanging in the hallway of his family home.

What grates is the cavalier, non-consultative process involved in the selection of the Queens Wharf site, writes Brian Rudman. As far as I can ascertain, it's been presented as a fait accompli to Waterfront Auckland.

New Zealand artist Ruth Stirnimann has won an international art competition in Rome for her symbolic abstract work on the Christchurch earthquakes.