The NZ Body Art Showcase, an extreme make-up extravaganza, offers the audience contemporary and indigenous styles of body painting and special effects make-up for film and television. Check out the images from this year's showcase.

The Mozart Requiem may have made for an almost full house on Thursday night as Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's 2013 Choral Masterpiece, but the concert's inclusion of two Haydn works was very much appreciated.

Christchurch September 2010 quake moved the earth 3m upwards. It also jolted the custodians of Te Papa into considering the safety of its treasures, writes Brian Rudman.

A major announcement has been made about a new Auckland branch for the national museum Te Papa, currently based in Wellington.

South Auckland is set to gain a rich cultural and economic boost as a northern outreach of Te Papa, the national museum.

A poster of one of Van Gogh's sunflowers is one of the traditional adornments to a student bedroom.

A struggling Chinese artist faked dozens of paintings as part of an elaborate US$80 million ($98.7 million) New York art fraud, prosecutors have alleged.

Editorial: Two events have conspired to cloud the St James' future - but any move to save and restore it should be widely supported.

A giant photograph of state houses described as "strikingly ordinary" has won the National Contemporary Art Award, and a faded old curtain was also recognised.