Dan Shanan is a trustee of the Documentary Edge Festival.

One of the biggest film festivals in the world started with a red carpet première of US blockbuster True Grit on Thursday in Berlin. Celebrities, star-crazed fans and journalists with silly questions, packed the German capital.

To some they're ugly scrawls that desecrate the urban landscape, to others they're street art. Paula Yeoman looks at the graffiti debate.

Regan Cameron is one of New Zealand’s most successful exports, yet most of us don’t even know his name.

Japanese ceramics artist Asumi Mizuo has found a unique way to create beauty out of imperfection.

Max Gimblett is one of our most beloved painters. Rebecca Barry met him in his New York studio and learned about his creative process.

As if to prove there is more to Auckland 2011 than rugby, there is an Arts Festival just around the corner, therefore, the time has come to study the programme, to sort through the pick 'n' mix box of yummy cultural chocolates on offer.

Peter Simpson reviews three new books about NZ artists.

Protesters trying to save three art deco houses in the Auckland waterfront suburb of St Heliers have had another small victory.

Protesters are steeling themselves for a legal battle with developers after being granted a stay of demolition on three historic St Heliers cottages.