A major announcement has been made about a new Auckland branch for the national museum Te Papa, currently based in Wellington.

South Auckland is set to gain a rich cultural and economic boost as a northern outreach of Te Papa, the national museum.

She's inspired everything from books to phone covers, and now a collection of paintings, photos and sculptures made with Kate Moss in mind is to be auctioned at Christie's.

Albert Wendt says he is "really chuffed" to have received the Order of New Zealand insignia that formerly belonged to fellow writer the late Margaret Mahy.

A poster of one of Van Gogh's sunflowers is one of the traditional adornments to a student bedroom.

A struggling Chinese artist faked dozens of paintings as part of an elaborate US$80 million ($98.7 million) New York art fraud, prosecutors have alleged.

Editorial: Two events have conspired to cloud the St James' future - but any move to save and restore it should be widely supported.

Coco Chanel is the star of a new exhibition in the UK.

Knowledge is power when it comes to buying art, finds Joanna Mathers.

If a public art gallery comes to reflect something of the style of its director, what might the Auckland Art Gallery look like after a few years of its new director, Rhana Devenport, running the place?

A celebrated children's author-turned-publisher has left the country, with a trail of unpaid debts and angry authors in her wake.