Current and upcoming listings from galleries in the Auckland area.

Former soldier Kevin Powers tells Stephen Jewell how his experience in Iraq led him to write.

If you're an animal lover, he's already unlikely to be one of your favourite artists. But even shark-pickling Damien Hirst's fans might flinch at his latest work.

Nicky Pellegrino finds few subjects are safe from Times columnist.

Author Kate de Goldi tells Rebecca Barry Hill how cracks in the road inspired her latest novel.

NZ will be on display more than 18,000km away in Germany tomorrow when the doors open for the Frankfurt Book Fair - the biggest book trade fair in the world.

JK Rowling's book is not for the kids, discovers Nicky Pellegrino.

John Key is pinning his hopes on wooing big budget American TV shows to New Zealand, after the postponement of a sequel to Avatar.

Say it ain’t so. Can it really be half a century since that ultimate male fantasy, Bond, James Bond, first slithered across the big screen? Dixon, Greg Dixon, crunches the numbers and talks to Sir Roger Moore ...

The return of a favourite character is welcomed by Nicky Pellegrino.

A furious argument has erupted over the future of the Sistine Chapel, after an Italian writer slammed it as an "unimaginable disaster" where tourists resemble "drunken herds".