Pop star Miley Cyrus is set to debut her first collection of art at a New York Fashion Week show on Wednesday.

On Monday night painter Roger Mortimer won this year's Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award - which means that he gets to go to New York for six months, for a residency, and what's more, he gets money to live on while he's there.

Auckland opera audiences have become accustomed to having Verdi and Puccini presented through the eyes of female directors from across the Tasman.

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.

The dexterity of an artist's technique means the viewer can often be involved in the action of the moving hand as well as the unspoken thoughts that might underlie a painting.

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.

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!"

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.

Italian AleXsandro Palombo transformed the Duchess of Cambridge into a dead ringer for a cast member of The Simpsons in a series of illustrations.

A 3D-printed nose guard has earned a Wellington student the top prize in the New Zealand leg of a global design competition.

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

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

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

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.