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Clumsy art student falls, rips Picasso

An art student invited the to Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ripped a Picasso masterpiece after losing her balance and falling into the work of art.

Visitor collides with Picasso at Met in NY

Survivors tell author tsunami nightmares

Samoan writer Lani Wendt Young has been commissioned to take down the stories of hundreds of people affected by the Pacific tsunami.

My run-in with Keith Murdoch

Roaming around the Pacific

The Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane has gradually expanded to include art from 25 countries, with New Zealand's contribution this year the most playful.

Roaming around a Pacific without borders

<i>T.J. McNamara:</i> Seurat's grand triumph of light

Sarkozy ponders move for Monet

<i>Review:</i> Short+Sweet at Herald Theatre

Frida Kahlo 'forgeries' flood into Mexico City art market

<i>Rebecca Barry:</i> Down and dirty at the Big Day Out

'Art no defence for child porn'

Enemies in their new homeland

Jewish poet 'alone and shunned'

Short story: <i>Premises</i> by Paula Morris

Focused on the road ahead

This decade's great visionary

Fun with the Fox

With the Fox With Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson has tackled a painstaking stop-motion adaptation of a childhood favourite.