Cars slowed and heads turned as almost 200 brightly coloured mood sticks were carried through central Auckland by people with white gloves.

Studies have shown that people benefit from doodling. And author Sunni Brown sees the doodle as a flash point in nothing less than a revolution in the way we learn.

A Kiwi abroad has become enamoured with vehicles that take the word roadworthy to wondrous levels.

Young female tattoo fans are up in arms. Very colourful arms.

The Auckland Triennial, which opens next month, brings together a host of local and international artists responding to what it is like to live here.

Haunting images of Auckland's rugged west coast captured by film-maker Adam Strange are proving a hit and a talking point with art lovers.

An art auction of "unprecedented quality and calibre" and boasting some of the biggest names in contemporary New Zealand art pulled in around $2 million when the works went under the hammer in Auckland last night.

Exhibitions that run during the Auckland Arts Festival should have some special factor that lifts them above the run of the mill.

Dozens of events all over Auckland will be shining brightly and busily tonight for Auckland Arts Festival's White Night, which stretches from the CBD to all corners of the city.

One of the subjects of a remarkable new Maori TV series on the descendants of those painted by Gottfried Lindauer is businessman, Treaty negotiator and new chief of Auckland Council's Southern Initiative John McEnteer.

Around 100,000 people are expected at Western Springs Lakeside Park in Auckland today for the annual Pasifika festival.

Auckland Art Gallery director Chris Saines leaves next week for Queensland after 17 years of working towards the gallery’s expansion and rejuvenation. But he’ll be back one day, he tells Linda Herrick.

Pictures from the opening night of the Auckland Arts Festival performance by French pyrotechnical wizards Groupe F

Artist Ralph Hotere, who died last week, has been immortalised by a street artist in Auckland.