Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra patrons can expect top-line keyboard mastery next Thursday when Kirill Gerstein sits at the Steinway for Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto.

The tidal margins of the Waitemata are brilliant. Some may think it's best to live in a crib with views of endless white sand, but you're better off with mud.

In his latest role, Emmett Skilton tackles the issue of climate change.

Director Michael Hurst is bringing Greek comedy Lysistrata to the stage. Written 2500 years ago, its message is just as strong today.

For more than 50 years Yoko Ono has been campaigning - for peace, for feminism, and gun control. This tireless activism, she tells Alex Needham, is at the heart of her work as an artist.

The dates weren't exactly right, but being born on nearly the same day as kinetic artist Len Lye was enough to land two New Plymouth boys a special role today.

The Len Lye Centre, which opens in New Plymouth today, is a world-class building dedicated to our most innovative, versatile artist.

A new take on portraits is helping connect today's generation of Maori to their ancestral past - and people from around the world are wanting in on it too.

Soldiers Rd Portraits is giving people the opportunity to feature in their own historic vintage photos.

Simpson And His Donkey is named after the famous Australian soldier, but actually features NZ medic Richard Henderson. Photo / supplied

This second season of NOW - New Original Works - truly reflects its name, with four confidently emerging new choreographers, expressing some very original concepts, beautifully performed by the talented and extremely hard-working team of five dancers.

Two months ago, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra enchanted us with a concert of composers from Bartok to Manuel de Falla, inspired by folksong.

David Hill wonders if he is the only one who finds some aspects of Te Papa's Gallipoli exhibition distasteful.