Investigative journalist Nicky Hager has a new role as adviser and fact-checker for the NZ At Venice Biennale 2015 art project 'Secret Power'.

A photograph of Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been removed from the walls of the National Portrait Gallery for fear it would be damaged.

Stephie Key reveals the inspiration behind her risque creations - "strong, beautiful, sensual and powerful women".

The opening stage is set with a tall scarlet banner which flows, bloodlike, from the rafters and bears the names, of relatives of the company one suspects, lost to the savageries of war.

Matt Gauldie has been the New Zealand Army’s artist for 10 years. He talks to Jennifer Dann about his work and the places it has taken him.

The Kiss Inside, an exposition on the primal search for ecstasy, finds him in a new frame of mind though, with an underlying wryness to his observations, anger mitigated, the passion wiser.

Art critics are impressed with the controversial $1.5 million sculpture planned for Queens Wharf, but it has been labelled a monstrosity and joke by some.

Budding Kiwi artists will next week have the chance to wow a top Weta Workshop designer.

A young Kiwi will fulfil a dream today when she dances lead ballerina in Swan Lake, performed by the Paris Opera Ballet.

The world's art lovers voted with their feet to make an 86-year-old Japanese woman the most popular artist of last year.