You're not too likely to encounter the music of Auber in today's opera houses and concert halls. Well, not in this country, although

Works selected for the Walters Prize, now on show at Auckland Art Gallery and to be announced later this month, are three video works and a billboard display representing each artist's body of work.

Every job has its challenges and there's many an adman (and, increasingly, woman) looking to escape; now 10 creatives are showing off what they do when they spring free.

They're the ideas men behind some of our most iconic advertising campaigns and images, working in an industry regarded as one of the

This surprising show - by new writer/director Ash Jones - is bonkers in the most wonderful way.

History is written large at five year old Q Theatre.

It is easy to see why the Royal NZ Ballet's signature work Giselle has earned popular and critical acclaim at home in New Zealand and around the world: it is simply superb in every way.

His Map of the Human Heart took him to the Arctic Circle. His New Zealand films In Spring One Plants Alone, Vigil, The Navigator

Geoff Allen's snippets-of-life drama is prettily presented by director Amanda Rees and holds attention with some lovely moving moments

Luca Manghi is in rehearsal week for tonight's Flautissimo concert, one of the regular chamber music evenings sponsored by Auckland's

During the past few years, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra has presented annual Choral Masterpieces evenings, focusing on one particular

The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) opened its premiere season with a double-bill programme consisting of two strikingly different

Already enjoying success as one of three dancers in the leading role of Albrecht in Giselle, there's further kudos for Royal New Zealand

John Reynolds is tackling one of the big mysteries of New Zealand art. What happened when Colin McCahon disappeared from the Sydney

The New Zealand Dance Company's double bill, The Absurdity of Humanity, brings together two works that offer two alternate visions

What: Resident by James Cousins Where and when: Gow Langsford Gallery, 26 Lorne St, to August 27 TJ says: Luminous, near abstract

As the centenary commemorations of World War I loomed, theatre-maker Geoff Allen wanted to write a play about New Zealand's contribution

Chemistry is vital on stage, when we want the performers in front of us to transport us out of the everyday. Does it make a difference

Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage has always seemed a poor cousin to his more popular Hebrides Overture, despite its literary

The New Zealand String Quartet has a distinguished track record on disc, balancing homegrown with international repertoire. Its latest

They say there's a first-time for everything; for Oliver Page and Benjamin Henson that time is now. Already established in their

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra take on the music of Ross Harris with excellent results.

TJ McNamara checks out new exhibitions from Elliot Collins and Daniel Crooks

I catch Javier Perianes by phone at his Hobart hotel and the Spanish pianist quickly assures me that, no, he's not watching the Olympics

A wooden carving commissioned as part of a regional public art programme has been vandalised.

Tonight's second instalment of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Degenerate, Denounced, Outrageous series was always going to be the

The Powerco Wanganui Trust has pledged $600,000 to the Sarjeant Gallery's redevelopment project. The money is to be uplifted in

Modernist painting by Lois White undergoing restoration.

HEALR is an intriguing exploration of the concept of wellbeing in 2016. Created and performed by leading dance independents, Rose

When the dinner conversation turns to crocodiles, you know this is no ordinary music festival. Crocodiles are a regular part of life