A vibrant masterpiece by Pablo Picasso, painted as an elegy to his friend and rival Henri Matisse, is predicted to set a world record for an artwork sold at auction.

For the next three months St David's Presbyterian Church on Khyber Pass will glimmer like a medieval knight. And like a crusader, it hopes the cross will bring new life and treasure.

Learning lines, frumpy clothes, and getting naked … Kiwi fashion queen Denise L’Estrange-Corbet talks to Suzanne McFadden about her very revealing stage debut.

The Terminator stands guard over New Zealand artist Simon Denny's visually complex, creepy and witty Venice Biennale installation Secret Power, which opened this week.

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".

They were sketched amid the hell of Gallipoli, drew the complements of the WW1 campaign’s foremost generals, and were later shown before the Royal Family.

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.

A Brazilian artist has come up with a quirky solution of whether to rock a beard or go clean shaven in his new selfie project.