Pasifika beats, arts, culture and talent will be seen and heard around Auckland over the next two weeks during the Urbanesia festival, which starts today.

An auction for works by Kiwi artist Peter McIntyre landed prices well above expectations, an art dealer says.

Hudson and Halls are back with a scrumptiously over-the-top display of outrageous showmanship and culinary mayhem.

A night of telling tales lay ahead when Eckehard Stier took the podium on Thursday for his penultimate appearance as Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's music director.

Soundscape artist James Pinker and artist Natalie Tozer are getting together in a project to celebrate innovative creative space LOT23

The Auckland Arts Festival has announced the musical line-up for its much-loved Spiegeltent venue next March, and it's a colourful list of local and international artists.

It's as near to a cliffhanger as you get in our classical music community, waiting to find out what is on offer in concert halls next year.

Soaring, skillful, seductive, sensory, spectacle. There are many words to describe Le Noir, but just one to sum it up: sensational.

Last week, in conversation, the Vienna Piano Trio's Stefan Mendl confessed his intense admiration for Beethoven's Opus 70 no 2.

New York is calling New Zealanders who want to develop their career overseas.

William Dowdall is an Irishman with Kiwi connections, celebrated on CD when his 2010 album, Breathe, showcased solo flute pieces by New Zealand and Irish composers.

Judges described his shot of urine-filled test tubes, pictured, as "unusually beautiful".