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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A $1 million-plus sculpture of a state house is expected to adorn the Auckland Viaduct - and ratepayers may have to contribute $500,000.

Otara teenager Sipa Deidoe had never been inside a theatre until he came into the Aotea Centre for a first meeting about a new arts project late last year.

Photographer Francois Brunelle has travelled the world photographing people who look alike.

Lorde has been immortalised by one of the country's top artists. A photo of the unframed oval painting by Peter Stichbury was posted by the popstar's Instagram this week.

First it was fast cars, now there's another sign that the economy is on the up: the booming art market. Leading NZ auction house Webbs says 31,000 items went under the hammer this year, raking in $17m.

Don Brash has just finished writing a book evaluating his successes and failures.

Two more never-before-seen paintings by Rolling Stone Keith Richards created while he recuperated from brain surgery in New Zealand have surfaced.