Liz Light takes a splendid summer walk.

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.

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.

A radical new teaching model has sparked fears of creative decline at one of our most successful visual art schools.

A Picasso valued at US$1 million ($1.2 million) is the prize in an unprecedented online Christmas charity raffle.

The influential Australian artist, cartoonist and co-founder of Oz magazine Martin Sharp has died at the age of 71.

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.

Today's special edition honours Kiwi greats and celebrates memories good and bad since Herald first published in 1863.

It has only been four months but I have fallen hard for Auckland.