Ravi Shankar, a major influence on The Beatles and Dad to Norah Jones, has died. He was 92.

Basing its final concert for the year on Sunday around the theme of a German Christmas was a shrewd move for Bach Musica.

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra came to town with an early Christmas present: a Gershwin cocktail that capitalised on Freddy Kempf's recent CD.

Artist Stephen Martyn Welch this year won the Adam Portraiture Award for his self-portrait, he raised $75,000 for Starship hospital in an auction of his works and his TV show, The Sitting, was nominated in the Television Awards.

A photographer who has attracted international recognition for nude photographs he took of his wife in the '80s says the pictures almost never came to light.

He is an artist best known for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin and for siting thousands of coloured umbrellas across valleys in Japan and America.

Current and upcoming listings from galleries in the Auckland area.

A rare collection of work by "living art legend" artist Ralph Hotere is expected to sell for around $400,000 when it goes under the hammer tonight.

A street art project that has popped up in Central Auckland is inviting people to share their bucket list with the public.

Handel would have been heartened by Viva Voce's Solomon on Sunday, one of the finest of his oratorios, cannily written to appeal to the tastes of his (and all) time.

Officialdom is taking offence at a renegade public artwork of graffiti-covered tanks at Wynyard Quarter.

The $20 million revamp of Titirangi's Lopdell House is stepping up in the New Year with work starting on strengthening its frame and refurbishing the building.

Giant calendar will be part of festive trail.

Bach's D minor Double Violin Concerto is a score of peerless beauty, its many contrapuntal threads woven with inevitability and rightness.

Current and upcoming listings from galleries in the Auckland area.

Classical music concertgoers will tonight be picketed by environmentalists protesting against Solid Energy's sponsorship of the NZ Symphony Orchestra.