Despite the temptation to stay home and catch Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Glennie at Olympus concert streamed live, there was almost a capacity turnout at the Town Hall.

Go play with the 12m of white Lego in the Auckland Art Gallery main atrium - it's great fun, it's free and it's there for six months.

Goethe was outraged by the suggestion that Mozart merely composed Don Giovanni "as if it were a piece of cake or biscuits stirred together out of eggs, flour and sugar!"

A painting of the coastline around Otago Harbour populated by macabre medieval demons and dragons has won the Paramount Award in last night's annual Wallace Art Awards.

Danielle Wright visits 'Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton', at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

It didn't take a historian to know the painting was of Gallipoli, but it did take a gallery director turned art detective to work out who painted it.

Relentless rain has put an end to revelry at this year’s Burning Man festival before it could even begin.

Thousands of Kiwis will witness the dazzling performers in Cirque du Soleil's Totem in its five-week Auckland season.

Portraits of well-known New Zealanders painted on to skateboards are fetching up to $10,000.

Drip, drip, drip - it's the sound of the slow but inexorable dribble of information about the Michael Parekowhai artwork on Queens Wharf finding its way out.

She has spent years dodging the police in north London, but now Britain's leading female street artist, known as Bambi, has been propelled into a world of wealth and glamour.

After the disappointment of the NZ Symphony Orchestra's last visit, its Friday concert was a welcome return to form, writes William Dart.

This week, the Herald ran a leaked image of the mystery $1.5 million sculpture Mayor Len Brown has regally decided will be plonked at the end of Queens Wharf.

A rare Maori statue is being sold at auction in France, and is expected to fetch up to $3.1 million.

Stars of stage and screen will fly in to pay tribute to the modest Kiwi vocal coach and mentor who helped put them on the map.

National's Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe has been referred to police along with Free FM in Hamilton for allegedly airing an election advertisement outside the proper period.

On Tuesday night Philip Patston went to Parliament to collect the inaugural Arts Access Accolade.

Johan Kobborg's Les Lutins, still in classical mode, cavorts and struts its sweetly saucy stuff to the live virtuoso violin of Benjamin Baker and Michael Pansters on piano.