Since I was small, art galleries have been a place of Zen for me. I relish the chance to explore, analyse and relate to the infinite ways in which human beings can express artistic creativity.
It started with a picture posted on Instagram of her weekly groceries last year, but now Amber Locke is being commissioned to create her 'veg art' by the likes of Jamie Oliver and Android.
Down a driveway in a modest house in Hamilton's university suburb is where the magic happens.
The Inspector Morse stories taught me that men are intelligent and sensitive and don't just want to hump everything that breathes.
The Auckland Museum is on the hunt for interns for its summer programme, writes Sarah Ell.
My childhood was happy, although not always easy. My parents separated when I was 2 and my mum's parents played a huge role in my upbringing.
Kiwi comic creator Dylan Horrocks' love of the medium was beaten to a pulp by Batgirl, but was sparked back into life through a trip into his own imaginary landscape.
Jack Tame writes: John Mulgan died on Anzac Day, 1945 - an intentional morphine overdose, three days before the end of the war. Today he lies in a quiet cemetery in Cairo.
A man who stole paintings from an Auckland artist and travelled around the country impersonating him and selling the work now owes him $5000.
Germany and a Swiss art museum have signed a landmark agreement returning a priceless hoard of art stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners.
"It's a silly way of putting it," says Richard Adams, "but if I had known earlier how frightfully well I could write, I'd have started earlier."
The rebirth of an old market, once teeming with hippy and bohemian traders and curious customers, has lured three Aucklanders back to Victoria Park where they spent happy times as teenagers.
An artist has redrawn classic animated ladies as breast cancer survivors in a bid to raise awareness for those battling the disease.
I've had an email from Ian Braddon-Parsons, disapproving of my November 1 Herald book review of Alexander McCall Smith's Emma.
Lost Gospel found in the British Library claims Jesus married the prostitute Mary Magdalene and had two children.
The Pacific's diverse arts make a 'house call' on Auckland's suburbs this month, writes Sarah Ell.
For nearly two years Northland doctor Chris Reid photographed his patients. Greg Dixon talks to him on the eve of an Auckland exhibition of the result.
A moment of relaxation has inspired a carving of the ultimate symbol of relaxation - the armchair.
Kerikeri GP Chris Reid photographed - with their permission - more than 400 of his patients at the end of their 15-minute consultation. The photos have just been published in a book called 'Patient: Portraits From A Doctor's Surgery' and will feature in an exhibition in Auckland in November. Check out some of the photos in our gallery.
As a finalist for the Walters Prize, artist Kalisolaite ‘Uhila lived rough on the streets of Auckland for three months. It was scary, challenging and uplifting, he tells Linda Herrick.
Simple forms given power by Bambury's chemical wizardry.
They say life imitates art. But sometimes, it appears, it imitates artists.
Papers show budget for artwork on Auckland's Queens Wharf now scaled back to $1.5m - still $500K more than was originally planned. And it won't be finished on time either.
Groupe F’s latest extravaganza opens newly ‘annualised’ arts event in March.
The Hairy Maclary sculpture project planned for Tauranga's redeveloped waterfront is closing in on its fundraising target.