A comedy promoter has apologised for dropping a female comic from a bill after claiming to have come under pressure from a venue to reduce the number of women he had booked to appear there.

The Harbourview sculpture trail is open daily 8 - 30 March 2014.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is about to take her final operatic curtain call, confirming that her cameo in a production at London's Royal Opera House will be her last role.

Images reproduced with permission from Lazy Days: Painting the kiwi lifestyle by Graham Young, published by New Holland, $29.99.

The man branded Britain's most violent prisoner has abandoned his sketch pad in protest after prison guards banned him from sending drawings to friends.

Exploring the Auckland Art Gallery is more fun than ever before, says Dionne Christian.

Even by the Byzantine standards of global antiquities theft the case of Subhash Kapoor is jaw-dropping.

Stephen and Karen Pearson may have the only home in New Zealand that could double as an art gallery.

A New Zealand illustrator is set to exhibit her work alongside the world's most famous street artist at an exhibition in the United States next month.

Illustrations by Henrietta Harris, who's work is featured in the Insiders exhibition at Robert Fontaine Gallery.

He is known as a Renaissance great - but Michelangelo was also a skilled forger who made copies of others' works before ageing them with smoke and swapping them for the originals.

A sculpture of a half-naked, sleep-walking man in the middle of a college campus has drawn hundreds of complaints from students.

For two decades, Martin Lang enjoyed what he thought was a Marc Chagall masterpiece hanging in the hallway of his family home.

Thanks to a generous body of donors, the Domain is home to artworks made by eight of New Zealand's leading contemporary artists.