The father had two pieces of advice for his son. No motorbikes and no heroin. Lester Hall has toed that line.

The spacious galleries at Northart are filled with paintings by the late Alan Gilderdale which give a telling insight into the stages of expression of his fine talents.

This year's Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award was presented last night at Pah Homestead in Auckland to a Hamilton-based pacific artist.

The city's arts, culture and civic precinct around Aotea Square is fighting back against the drift of corporate offices, apartments, shops and restaurants.

Simone Young and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra returns with a monumental Bruckner Eighth Symphony.

It's not often New Yorkers see a New Zealand theatre production before Aucklanders, but that's the case with All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever.

A student painter in the UK had completed only twenty similar works when he received an unexpected commission.

Budding artists can create, draw and build at interactive installation at Auckland Art Gallery.

If you are going to do fairies there can be no holding back, so wunderkind English choreographer Liam Scarlett unashamedly mixes.

Hundreds of artworks adorn Auckland, highlighting our culture and diversity, finds Sarah Ell.

Some of us have become cynical about the lure of the exotic, thanks to the loose and fatuous language of the advertising industry.

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