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No shortage of mega-rich as art auction records fall
Norman Rockwell's Saying Grace became the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction last week, fetching US$46 million ($55.5 million) at Sotheby's in New York.
Revamp mystifies arts commentator
The radical restructuring of Unitec's design and visual arts department has mystified many who took part in a quality assurance review of the school last year.
Education death by design
A radical new teaching model has sparked fears of creative decline at one of our most successful visual art schools.
NZ famous five under hammer
Dick Frizzell's five portrait paintings of inspiring New Zealanders commissioned for the Herald's 150th birthday will be auctioned for charity tomorrow night.
Keef, the artful lodger
A never-before-seen painting by Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards has been stashed in a drawer in a swanky Auckland bed and breakfast for the past seven years.
$1.2m Picasso offered as raffle prize
A Picasso valued at US$1 million ($1.2 million) is the prize in an unprecedented online Christmas charity raffle.
Oz artist Sharp dies
The influential Australian artist, cartoonist and co-founder of Oz magazine Martin Sharp has died at the age of 71.
The friendship that spawned a masterpiece
When a mutual friend introduced Lucian Freud to Francis Bacon it seeded a competitive friendship between the two titans of 20th century figurative art, who made each other a favoured subject.
150 years of inspiration
Today's special edition honours Kiwi greats and celebrates memories good and bad since Herald first published in 1863.
Rhana Devenport: Why I love Auckland
It has only been four months but I have fallen hard for Auckland.
Brian Rudman: Artwork a lop-sided history lesson
The menacing silhouette of this armed strike-breaker is hardly an image that exudes warmth or attracts support, writes Brian Rudman. Put him back by all means, but in the interests of historical balance, why not an equally menacing wharfie?