A $1 million-plus sculpture of a state house is expected to adorn the Auckland Viaduct - and ratepayers may have to contribute $500,000.

Otara teenager Sipa Deidoe had never been inside a theatre until he came into the Aotea Centre for a first meeting about a new arts project late last year.

An "irreplaceable" private collection of work by some of New Zealand's finest contemporary artists has been destroyed in a fire at a house near New Plymouth.

Photographer Francois Brunelle has travelled the world photographing people who look alike.

First it was fast cars, now there's another sign that the economy is on the up: the booming art market. Leading NZ auction house Webbs says 31,000 items went under the hammer this year, raking in $17m.

Visitors to Waiheke are invited to experience Oneroa's new sculpture project, writes Donna McIntyre.

Liz Light takes a splendid summer walk.

Portraits of legendary musicians as they would look if they were still alive today.

Norman Rockwell's Saying Grace became the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction last week, fetching US$46 million ($55.5 million) at Sotheby's in New York.

The radical restructuring of Unitec's design and visual arts department has mystified many who took part in a quality assurance review of the school last year.

A radical new teaching model has sparked fears of creative decline at one of our most successful visual art schools.

A never-before-seen painting by Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards has been stashed in a drawer in a swanky Auckland bed and breakfast for the past seven years.

It may look like a photograph of actor Morgan Freeman, but this picture is a painting of the actor done using an iPad.

Leading New Zealand artist Stephen Bambury is in a High Court fight with a gallery director who allegedly failed to pay commissions.