Surface, colour and form are inextricably linked in painting. Three shows this week mix them in different ways.

Kiwi twin sisters have been celebrated as being among the highlights of major Australian arts festival Vivid Sydney.

Rachel Bache takes on the excitement of Vivid Sydney. Here are today's highlights from day five of the festival.

Street artist Bezt painted a woman lying in a forest clutching arrows protruding from her stomach on a wall in the Scenic Circle Southern Cross Hotel car park.

Rachel Bache takes on the excitement of Vivid Sydney. Here are today's highlights from day four of the festival.

Move over trivia night. The fashionable way to hang out in a London pub these days is with a pencil in one hand, a pint in the other and a naked person in front of you.

Rachel Bache takes on the excitement of Vivid Sydney, here are today's highlights from the festival.

Leaving Auckland far behind on the familiar route to Leigh you'll pass a turn on your left, after Matakana, that leads towards a quarry near the base of a local peak named Tamahunga.

Rachel Bache takes on the excitement of Vivid Sydney, here are today's highlights from the festival.

Greg Dixon talks to Rawiri Paratene about how he came to be taking Shakespeare to the world.

There's a delicious convergence of the arts on NZTrio's new Lightbox CD, tantalisingly wrapped in the scuffed fluoro hues of Jim Speers' English Electric.

Misal Adnan Yıldız is the new director of Artspace on Karangahape Rd. The Turkish-born curator spoke to Jennifer Dann.

Comedian and bestselling children’s author David Walliams recounted how the inspiration for one of his villains came from his experience judging Britain's Got Talent.

The publicity photos shock. George Henare, an avuncular gentleman with a twinkle in his eye, is bound, gagged and has a gun to his head held by a determined but nevertheless vulnerable-looking and slightly built Tatiana Hotere.

A strong earthquake centred in Marlborough was felt as far away as Wellington this evening. GeoNet said the magnitude 4.6 quake happened 16km underground.

Now it is sold it is less likely than ever to be reunited with its 14 sisters in the "Women of Algiers" series.

An artist in a legal dispute with his long-term agent has been accused of incorrectly recalling what happened to his artworks.

A dispute over the sale of a leading New Zealand artist's work has seen several high-profile names in the New Zealand art world dragged to the High Court.

A vibrant masterpiece by Pablo Picasso, painted as an elegy to his friend and rival Henri Matisse, is predicted to set a world record for an artwork sold at auction.