Danielle Wright visits 'Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton', at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

It didn't take a historian to know the painting was of Gallipoli, but it did take a gallery director turned art detective to work out who painted it.

Italian AleXsandro Palombo transformed the Duchess of Cambridge into a dead ringer for a cast member of The Simpsons in a series of illustrations.

A 3D-printed nose guard has earned a Wellington student the top prize in the New Zealand leg of a global design competition.

Relentless rain has put an end to revelry at this year’s Burning Man festival before it could even begin.

Thousands of Kiwis will witness the dazzling performers in Cirque du Soleil's Totem in its five-week Auckland season.

Portraits of well-known New Zealanders painted on to skateboards are fetching up to $10,000.

Drip, drip, drip - it's the sound of the slow but inexorable dribble of information about the Michael Parekowhai artwork on Queens Wharf finding its way out.

She has spent years dodging the police in north London, but now Britain's leading female street artist, known as Bambi, has been propelled into a world of wealth and glamour.

After the disappointment of the NZ Symphony Orchestra's last visit, its Friday concert was a welcome return to form, writes William Dart.

This week, the Herald ran a leaked image of the mystery $1.5 million sculpture Mayor Len Brown has regally decided will be plonked at the end of Queens Wharf.

A rare Maori statue is being sold at auction in France, and is expected to fetch up to $3.1 million.

National's Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe has been referred to police along with Free FM in Hamilton for allegedly airing an election advertisement outside the proper period.

On Tuesday night Philip Patston went to Parliament to collect the inaugural Arts Access Accolade.

Johan Kobborg's Les Lutins, still in classical mode, cavorts and struts its sweetly saucy stuff to the live virtuoso violin of Benjamin Baker and Michael Pansters on piano.

A healthy amount of public art tells you a lot about a community, writes Paul Little.

Is it a lamp, a work of art, a piece of furniture, or a magical prop from a science fiction film?