Kiwis who have excelled in the fashion, business and singing fields were the latest achievers to be made companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit today.

His 'medium' is coffee, his palette is espresso and steamed milk and his only tool is a cocktail skewer.

Wanganui artist Julian Priest will watch his satellite being launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral at 10.41pm on Sunday.

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.

Rachel Bache battles aching feet to take in as much of Melbourne's White Night Festival as she can before sunrise.

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.

Sculpture controversy puts council plans for Queens Wharf in spotlight once again.