Auckland artist Flox has spent three months in Taipei trying to find some walls to spray-paint. Asia is an untapped source of inspiration, she tells Linda Herrick

A seaside "bemusement park" unveiled by Banksy has sparked controversy by featuring a Cinderella pumpkin crash sculpture which echos Princess Diana's death.

The three choreographers contributing state of the art pieces for this ground-breaking season with the New Zealand Dance Company were given the brief of "light, illumination, space, image and movement" by the company's artistic director Shona McCullagh.

Given how blood-soaked his production of Titus was, it should have been obvious theatre director Benjamin Henson is a splatter-film fan from way back.

South African scientists have discovered that 400-year-old tobacco pipes excavated from the garden of William Shakespeare contained cannabis, suggesting the playwright might have written some of his....

Portraits of Audrey Hepburn and Charlie Chaplin, views of Venetian canals or a growling lion, these artworks all have something in common outside hefty price tags - they're edible.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra patrons can expect top-line keyboard mastery next Thursday when Kirill Gerstein sits at the Steinway for Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto.

The tidal margins of the Waitemata are brilliant. Some may think it's best to live in a crib with views of endless white sand, but you're better off with mud.

In his latest role, Emmett Skilton tackles the issue of climate change.

Director Michael Hurst is bringing Greek comedy Lysistrata to the stage. Written 2500 years ago, its message is just as strong today.

For more than 50 years Yoko Ono has been campaigning - for peace, for feminism, and gun control. This tireless activism, she tells Alex Needham, is at the heart of her work as an artist.

A Finland artist has reimagined what he thinks well-known Disney princes would look like if they were real humans. Swoon.

Struggling artists and authors with writer's block may soon be offered help from an imagination app.