An artwork depicting controversial strikes on Auckland's waterfront 100 years ago has been covered up ahead of its removal this morning.

She was New Zealand's first Poet Laureate and now Michele Leggott has won the PM's award for literature, which she'll receive in Wellington tonight.

Online portal open all hours puts buyers close-up in front of works throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Does he like peeling onions? Michael Hurst looks bemused by the question - he is eating a home-made salad of piquant appearance - so he pauses, fork in mid-air, and tilts his head.

He became the first New Zealander to be convicted for art forgery, but Carl Goldie's family don't think he minded too much.

British street art superstar Banksy says police have prevented him from creating a new piece of art in New York as promised on each day of the month.

Take a look at some of the acts that will be performing at the 2014 NZ Festival.

Some of New Zealand's finest authors have congratulated Eleanor Catton on her Man Booker Prize success.

Thank you. When I began writing The Luminaries, I was very much in the thrall of Lewis Hyde's wonderful book, The Gift, as I still am.

New Zealander Eleanor Catton has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize this morning. At 28, she becomes the youngest author to ever win the award.

Three-week festival ranges across arts from orchestral performances to street events.

A New Zealand artist has won a medal in China for carving jade, becoming the first person outside the country to do so.

Waste management bosses in the UK have called for street artist Banksy to be charged with vandalism and have vowed to set him up for an arrest where his true identity will finally be revealed.

If there were a literary award bigger than the Nobel Prize, Alice Munro would probably win that, too.

The painting, "The street is in play", shows two boys trying to grab a can of paint from a "graffiti is a crime" sign.