Bob Orr calls me - twice - with afterthoughts. "I'm not very good at interviews," he explains, and his tone is apologetic, as though he's let me down.

Rachel Bache battles aching feet to take in as much of Melbourne's White Night Festival as she can before sunrise.

Stephen and Karen Pearson may have the only home in New Zealand that could double as an art gallery.

Illustrations by Henrietta Harris, who's work is featured in the Insiders exhibition at Robert Fontaine Gallery.

Watching Victor Rodger's hit play Black Faggot gave emerging theatre writer, director and producer Bruce Brown an idea.

Auckland missed The Hanging Sky, the recent survey exhibition of work by Shane Cotton that toured New Zealand and Australia.

A sculpture of a half-naked, sleep-walking man in the middle of a college campus has drawn hundreds of complaints from students.

For two decades, Martin Lang enjoyed what he thought was a Marc Chagall masterpiece hanging in the hallway of his family home.

What grates is the cavalier, non-consultative process involved in the selection of the Queens Wharf site, writes Brian Rudman. As far as I can ascertain, it's been presented as a fait accompli to Waterfront Auckland.

New Zealand artist Ruth Stirnimann has won an international art competition in Rome for her symbolic abstract work on the Christchurch earthquakes.

A $1 million-plus sculpture of a state house is expected to adorn the Auckland Viaduct - and ratepayers may have to contribute $500,000.