New ZealandKiwi artist, The Toastman, diesNew Zealand artist Maurice Bennett crafted unique portraits of celebrities from pieces of toast.06 Jun 04:50 AM
OpinionT.J. McNamara: Reaching new heightsAbstract art is showing new vitality. It can be Classical or Romantic, poised and precise, or energetic and expressionistic.04 Jun 05:00 PM
New ZealandDoctor by day, writer by night, a thinker at heartHe's a doctor who writes novels in his spare time. He teaches writing, is developing a cosmetics range and doing a PhD. Is Sharad Paul NZ's busiest man?04 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionAlan DuffAlan Duff: Fill children's hearts with beautiful, endless loveCOMMENT: I'm going to selectively quote from a Pablo Neruda poem titled To Wash a Child.30 May 05:00 PM
OpinionT.J. McNamara: Shows share political insightSpace to Dream: Recent Art from South America includes art from the late 1960s to the present created by artists from eight different countries.27 May 07:00 PM
EntertainmentArt matters: Images offer vision of the worldLocal photographer Julia Glover has experienced the excitement of Africa without leaving town.27 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentPasifika artists off to GuamCreative New Zealand spent $650,000 to ensure the country is well-represented.21 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentExhibition: A look at the Pacific in the digital ageWhat is it like to live, as many of us in the Southern Hemisphere do, with our eyes forever on a different part of the world?20 May 05:00 PM
New ZealandAvant garde fundraising launch for artCash and cauliflowers collided at last night's avant garde launch of a new annual appeal for the Auckland Art Gallery.19 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentPlaywright's insight hits NZ nervesIt goes to show, as Hare says, the audience - the way it reacts and responds and its current concerns - shapes theatre.15 May 05:00 PM
Entertainment'Feminism is an issue, not a word'At 82, Gloria Steinem - the woman who spearheaded the women's liberation movement in the United States and beyond - was smoking hot.15 May 05:00 PM
Entertainment'Love class' next step for PM's daughterStephie Key this week graduates from the exclusive Paris College of Art, and her dad will make a flying visit to be there for the big day.14 May 10:31 PM
EntertainmentA half-century of sharing his passionIn a sense, it all began with a question from a small boy: "If we're going to catch the bus into Auckland Library, please can we go to the art gallery, too?"14 May 02:03 AM
New ZealandAuckland Arts Fair: Lessons in fair play for allAuckland Art Fair will show the best in contemporary art from New Zealand and the wider Pacific.13 May 09:39 PM
EntertainmentKapiti short story in Pacific final berthThe winners of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards aren't the only local authors toasting success.13 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentScribe doesn't grow out of itHe cuts scrub to make ends meet and used to pretend to be looking at porn to hide his love of poetry from army mates.13 May 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Written word continues to enrich usThe Auckland Writers Festival, under way at civic centre venues this week, is a testament to the continued value of the written word.11 May 05:00 PM
New ZealandFormer shearer wins top fiction prizeDecades of hard work for Stephen Daisley, a former shearer, farmer and soldier turned author, have paid off.10 May 10:00 AM
EntertainmentAuckland Writers Festival: Suburban subjectsIt might more commonly be called the City of Sails, but to sociologist and historian Scott Hamilton Auckland is "a city of text", with multiple stories waiting to be told.07 May 05:30 PM
EntertainmentNick Atkinson: Man of words sharing poetry and all the jazzAuckland pianist Ben Fernandez and drummer Stephen Thomas have been roped in for the one-off performance.06 May 10:48 PM
EntertainmentAuckland Writers Festival: Seeking Kiwi surprisesPlaywright, screenwriter and theatre and film director Sir David Hare is taking a few days off in New Zealand.06 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentAuckland Writers Festival: Poetry in motionThey say all good things must come to an end and this year, the Auckland Writers Festival farewells one of its regular fixtures.06 May 05:00 PM
WorldGangster's home searched for stolen artPolice in Connecticut have searched the home of a 79-year-old gangster in connection with a stash of stolen paintings.04 May 05:23 AM
New ZealandArt reaches out across the oceanIt is astounding to think no art gallery in Australasia has ever generated a comprehensive exhibition of work from South America until now.29 Apr 05:00 PM
New ZealandAn alternative assessment of real lifeFifteen seconds: according to a number of surveys, that's the amount of time the "average" viewer spends looking at a painting and accompanying text.29 Apr 05:00 PM
New ZealandIslands of colour mixed media and visual inventionMuch exciting contemporary art aims not to promote meaning or message but rather to engage the eye with new visual experience.29 Apr 05:00 PM
OpinionPaul Moon: Is Shakespeare now irrelevant?COMMENT: Four hundred years after the writer's death it's time to acknowledge Shakespeare has less to offer the modern world.24 Apr 05:00 PM
EntertainmentTen ways in which Shakespeare changed the worldThis week marks 400 years since the death of our national poet. And yet his characters, the worlds he created, the thoughts he expressed are for all people and all time.22 Apr 10:00 PM
EntertainmentDance company Lumina touring North IslandTaking dance to provinces and to the young is company focus.22 Apr 10:00 PM
EntertainmentBeauty on the inside comes outOne of the most popular exhibitions at the Mairangi Arts Centre, on Auckland's North Shore, is now on.22 Apr 07:30 PM
