International medical experts have announced that Van Gogh had an alcohol problem and suffered from repeated breakdowns

A residency at the Smithsonian in Washington DC or one on Waiheke at the island's community art gallery?

A Judy Millar retrospective shows the visceral strength of the artist's works.

TJ McNamara's weekly round-up of the latest art gallery shows.

Tim and Sherrah Francis amassed the greatest names in New Zealand art for more than 50 years. Kim Knight talks to their son about the sale of his parents' unique collection.

Work by contemporary Maori and Pacific photographers travels across the ocean to join 10,000 images from all over the world at the Pingyao International Photography Festival.

Works selected for the Walters Prize, now on show at Auckland Art Gallery and to be announced later this month, are three video works and a billboard display representing each artist's body of work.

Every job has its challenges and there's many an adman (and, increasingly, woman) looking to escape; now 10 creatives are showing off what they do when they spring free.

They're the ideas men behind some of our most iconic advertising campaigns and images, working in an industry regarded as one of the

Long live the art of painting

Auckland's Aotea Square is to be illuminated by large sculpture highlighting dementia.

John Reynolds is tackling one of the big mysteries of New Zealand art. What happened when Colin McCahon disappeared from the Sydney

What: Resident by James Cousins Where and when: Gow Langsford Gallery, 26 Lorne St, to August 27 TJ says: Luminous, near abstract

In the 3D animation class at Manurewa High School, Year 12 and 13 students are thinking about the future. How might houses inspired

Award-winning NZ Herald editorial cartoonist Rod Emmerson explains the thinking and process behind his Donald Trump illustration that appears in the world section of today’s paper.

The Richard Deacon sculpture Nobody Here But Us has the highest insurance value of any work in Auckland Council's art collection.

Exhibition pays homage to genius, writes Dionne Christian.

The fine city of Toulouse, on the river Garonne, has an air of Italy about it. It is immensely proud of its Capitole, the long neo-classical

Inhotim is an open-air art gallery in the midst of about 2000ha of botanic gardens, a two-hour drive from Belo Horizonte, a two-hour flight from Rio.

The world of author and illustrator Dr Seuss is one in which nothing and everything makes sense.

An image of a hydrangea scores big for photographer Emma Bass, writes Dionne Christian.

You can ask Scribe about his new play, but veer off topic and you could be in trouble.

Oscar Pistorius has given his first television interview since killing Reeva Steenkamp saying he does doesn’t want to go to jail. Britons have been voting in a referendum on whether or not to stay in the European Union A New Zealander's mural of Prince has been unveiled in the musician's hometown of Chanhassen, Minnesota

The superb retrospective show of photographer Fiona Pardington at Auckland Art Gallery, which finishes this weekend, is a series of essays.

Rachel Bache is awestruck by the lights, the music, the street food and the magic of Vivid Sydney.

Imagine a 254-year-old musical instrument made of wood. It was built in London and probably had a passing acquaintance with Haydn, among others.

The Auckland Art Gallery is showing a small exhibition of lithographs by Honore Daumier that acts as a lively adjunct to the current Auckland Festival of Photography.

A giant, headless statue of Rihanna has appeared as part of an art series which mixes celebrity culture with mythology.

The handbrake is set to be pulled on the Real Art Roadshow which has visited schools around NZ for 10 years - unless someone new grabs the wheel.