A furious argument has erupted over the future of the Sistine Chapel, after an Italian writer slammed it as an "unimaginable disaster" where tourists resemble "drunken herds".

Current and upcoming listings from galleries in the Auckland area.

He may be one of New Zealand’s best-known and honoured actors on stage and screen but Alan Perrott discovers George Henare is also one of the most modest.

On the same plaza where models had strutted the runways just days earlier, it seemed like New York Fashion Week had been a mere prelude to NYCB's glittery fall gala. The evening's star was legendary designer Valentino, and the focus was on clothes, onstage and off.

The auction of one of New Zealand's most highly regarded art collections has fetched a record $4.52 million.

Sudden death of larger-than-life artist shocks his family and the New Zealand art world.

Celebrated New Zealand artist Don Binney has died in hospital, aged 73.

On a rare fine night, Danielle Wright visits an open-air pop-up drawing club in the middle of town.

Three fabulous places for painters to set up their easels. New Zealand is bursting with beautiful vistas and these three are regularly immortalised on canvas.

Silo Theatre's staging of Noel Coward's Private Lives brings the withering satire of love, marriage and divorce into the modern age. Dionne Christian reports.