Artist Stephen Martyn Welch this year won the Adam Portraiture Award for his self-portrait, he raised $75,000 for Starship hospital in an auction of his works and his TV show, The Sitting, was nominated in the Television Awards.

A photographer who has attracted international recognition for nude photographs he took of his wife in the '80s says the pictures almost never came to light.

He is an artist best known for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin and for siting thousands of coloured umbrellas across valleys in Japan and America.

The Royal NZ Ballet's season of Giselle is wowing audiences with its revitalised version of the classic story of love, betrayal and revenge. Raewyn Whyte reports.

Current and upcoming listings from galleries in the Auckland area.

Handel would have been heartened by Viva Voce's Solomon on Sunday, one of the finest of his oratorios, cannily written to appeal to the tastes of his (and all) time.

Officialdom is taking offence at a renegade public artwork of graffiti-covered tanks at Wynyard Quarter.

The $20 million revamp of Titirangi's Lopdell House is stepping up in the New Year with work starting on strengthening its frame and refurbishing the building.

Giant calendar will be part of festive trail.

Bach's D minor Double Violin Concerto is a score of peerless beauty, its many contrapuntal threads woven with inevitability and rightness.

Current and upcoming listings from galleries in the Auckland area.

Classical music concertgoers will tonight be picketed by environmentalists protesting against Solid Energy's sponsorship of the NZ Symphony Orchestra.

There was festivity in the air at Holy Trinity Cathedral for Auckland Choral's Magnificat concert.

A new show at Auckland Art Gallery salutes the photographers who captured the crazy heart and soul of rock'n'roll. Curator Gail Buckland talks to Graham Reid.

Artists who use more atypical methods of portrayal are featured in current exhibitions.