The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is preparing to go on tour, with Jeremy Wells joining them to make a documentary.

The orchestra will visit some of the most prestigious, and beautiful, concert halls in Europe.

The Arts Foundation's Simon Bowden says we can learn something from the US when it comes to cultural philanthropy.

Life lessons from the artist and illustrator.

A new premiere boutique hotel may have been cool enough for Welsh crooner Tom Jones to stay at, but New Zealand's own Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has deemed it a little too "cool" for her vocal chords.

I can't help being fascinated by the kind of work being done where art and tech collide.

In a story that has rocked the art world, an original Michelangelo may have been discovered in the most unlikely of locations. Photo / AP

Contemporary art is a puzzle to many people. It is, therefore, unsurprising that the winner of the Walters Prize has created controversy.

A jumbled collection of posters, a bashed old barbecue table and chairs, YouTube clips, lamps and a paranoid handwritten note has won the Walters Prize, the richest contemporary art prize in the country.

Artists@Work, a new book by writer Richard Wolfe and photographer Stephen Robinson, offers an insight into the creative processes of 24 painters and sculptors. In this edited extract, Auckland artist Richard Killeen talks about disliking p

By day, Morag McDowell investigates death. And by night, well, she sings about it. The full-time Auckland coroner and part-time opera singer talks to Rebecca Barry.

Creative fashion and bizarre bras at last night's World of Wearable Arts awards.