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![Book catalogues highs and lows](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Book catalogues highs and lows
Don Brash has just finished writing a book evaluating his successes and failures.
![Keef pictures to be auctioned](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Keef pictures to be auctioned
Two more never-before-seen paintings by Rolling Stone Keith Richards created while he recuperated from brain surgery in New Zealand have surfaced.
![Hannah O'Neill - pirouetting to Paris](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Hannah O'Neill - pirouetting to Paris
Most Kiwis have probably not heard of Hannah O'Neill. The 20-year-old is one of the brightest young stars in the ballet world, who also happens to be a Kiwi.
![JAFArtist inspiring Auckland](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
JAFArtist inspiring Auckland
After working as an artist part-time for a couple of years, Allan Wrath decided in February to give it his full attention.
![Banksy mural fetches $250K](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Banksy mural fetches $250K
A mural stenciled on the side of a Hollywood gas station five years ago by the British street artist Banksy has fetched more than $200,000 at a Beverly Hills auction.
![$1.2m Picasso offered as raffle prize](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
$1.2m Picasso offered as raffle prize
A Picasso valued at US$1 million ($1.2 million) is the prize in an unprecedented online Christmas charity raffle.
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This is not a photo
It may look like a photograph of actor Morgan Freeman, but this picture is a painting of the actor done using an iPad.
![Leading NZ artist in High Court scrap](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Leading NZ artist in High Court scrap
Leading New Zealand artist Stephen Bambury is in a High Court fight with a gallery director who allegedly failed to pay commissions.
![$3 million art auction in Auckland tonight](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
$3 million art auction in Auckland tonight
The biggest art auction of the year will be held in Auckland tonight with artworks totalling $3 million going under the hammer.
![Comedy review: Michael McIntyre, Vector Arena](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Comedy review: Michael McIntyre, Vector Arena
The words stand-up comedian and sold-out stadium hardly ever appear in that same sentence in this country, but comedy mega-star Michael McIntyre regularly fills Britain's largest venues and he had no trouble packing out the Vector Arena.
![Recluse wants his 'friends' - Nazi-era artworks - back](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Recluse wants his 'friends' - Nazi-era artworks - back
The German pensioner accused of hiding a vast Nazi-era collection of artwork in his Munich flat has publicly insisted that the paintings are his "private property".
![Nobel prize winner was ahead of her time](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Nobel prize winner was ahead of her time
Already in the hours since the death of Doris Lessing was announced, many people will have watched a widely circulated video, filmed on her doorstep in 2007.
![Author Doris Lessing dies](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Author Doris Lessing dies
Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarising author has died at the age of 94.