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.

New Zealander Eleanor Catton says she is "absolutely over the moon" after winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize in London this morning.

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 NZ Body Art Showcase, an extreme make-up extravaganza, offers the audience contemporary and indigenous styles of body painting and special effects make-up for film and television. Check out the images from this year's showcase.