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.

Abstract art is showing new vitality. It can be Classical or Romantic, poised and precise, or energetic and expressionistic.

Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America includes art from the late 1960s to the present created by artists from eight different countries.

Kiwi artists are flocking to Australia this weekend for the opening of Vivid Sydney, where their work will be on show alongside artists from around the world.

Local photographer Julia Glover has experienced the excitement of Africa without leaving town.

An airbrushed "tattoo" on a five-year-old Tauranga boy has become an internet phenomenon that could bring smiles to the faces of children at Starship Hospital.

Creative New Zealand spent $650,000 to ensure the country is well-represented.

A few words with documentary film-maker Justin Webster.

Stephie Key this week graduates from the exclusive Paris College of Art, and her dad will make a flying visit to be there for the big day.

In a sense, it all began with a question from a small boy: "If we're going to catch the bus into Auckland Library, please can we go to the art gallery, too?"

It is not all abstraction; there is still painting about people.

Auckland Art Fair will show the best in contemporary art from New Zealand and the wider Pacific.

A few words with art curator Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel.

It might more commonly be called the City of Sails, but to sociologist and historian Scott Hamilton Auckland is "a city of text", with multiple stories waiting to be told.

Auckland pianist Ben Fernandez and drummer Stephen Thomas have been roped in for the one-off performance.

The works, for the most part small statues and ceramics, are displayed on carpet mats on the floor.

Harlem Shine from Ohope Beach carves logs washed ashore during storms. He can spend weeks/months carving a huge log only to have a storm wash it out to sea.

There are two Block Parties happening in Auckland: which is the one for you?

It is astounding to think no art gallery in Australasia has ever generated a comprehensive exhibition of work from South America until now.

Fifteen seconds: according to a number of surveys, that's the amount of time the "average" viewer spends looking at a painting and accompanying text.