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Student's first commission to paint Queen's portrait
A student painter in the UK had completed only twenty similar works when he received an unexpected commission.

Children, let your imagination run wild
Budding artists can create, draw and build at interactive installation at Auckland Art Gallery.

Shakespeare's classic comedy spellbinding
If you are going to do fairies there can be no holding back, so wunderkind English choreographer Liam Scarlett unashamedly mixes.

Auckland's best suburban art
Hundreds of artworks adorn Auckland, highlighting our culture and diversity, finds Sarah Ell.

Classical review: APO, Auckland Town Hall
Some of us have become cynical about the lure of the exotic, thanks to the loose and fatuous language of the advertising industry.

Flox's Asian inspiration (+watch)
Auckland artist Flox has spent three months in Taipei trying to find some walls to spray-paint. Asia is an untapped source of inspiration, she tells Linda Herrick

T.J. McNamara: Feeling fine with flexible felt
Felt might seem an unlikely medium for sculpture but Peter Robinson has become devoted to it. His latest expression of its qualities can be seen at Hopkinson Mossman Gallery.

She wouldn't even harm a fly
Given how blood-soaked his production of Titus was, it should have been obvious theatre director Benjamin Henson is a splatter-film fan from way back.

What did Shakespeare smoke?
South African scientists have discovered that 400-year-old tobacco pipes excavated from the garden of William Shakespeare contained cannabis, suggesting the playwright might have written some of his....

Artist's luxury edible portraits
Portraits of Audrey Hepburn and Charlie Chaplin, views of Venetian canals or a growling lion, these artworks all have something in common outside hefty price tags - they're edible.