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<i>Preview</i>: Cabaret at Salon Perdu Spiegeltent
The Auckland Theatre Company marks the end of the year in a tent, with decadence, desperation and Hitler's thugs waiting in the wings.
Kiri's Goldie painting may set sale record
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is putting her Goldie painting 'Forty Winks' up for auction. A record-breaking sale price of $500,000 is anticipated.
NZSO Tour of Europe
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is preparing to go on tour, with Jeremy Wells joining them to make a documentary.
The orchestra will visit some of the most prestigious, and beautiful, concert halls in Europe.
Simon Bowden's favourite things
The Arts Foundation's Simon Bowden says we can learn something from the US when it comes to cultural philanthropy.
Boutique hotel too cool for a dame
A new premiere boutique hotel may have been cool enough for Welsh crooner Tom Jones to stay at, but New Zealand's own Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has deemed it a little too "cool" for her vocal chords.
When art, smell and technology collide
I can't help being fascinated by the kind of work being done where art and tech collide.
$300m painting 'hidden behind the sofa'
In a story that has rocked the art world, an original Michelangelo may have been discovered in the most unlikely of locations. Photo / AP
<i>Editorial:</i> Art definitely in the eye of the beholder
Contemporary art is a puzzle to many people. It is, therefore, unsurprising that the winner of the Walters Prize has created controversy.
Auckland artist wins $50,000 Walters prize
A jumbled collection of posters, a bashed old barbecue table and chairs, YouTube clips, lamps and a paranoid handwritten note has won the Walters Prize, the richest contemporary art prize in the country.