For the next three months St David's Presbyterian Church on Khyber Pass will glimmer like a medieval knight. And like a crusader, it hopes the cross will bring new life and treasure.

Learning lines, frumpy clothes, and getting naked … Kiwi fashion queen Denise L’Estrange-Corbet talks to Suzanne McFadden about her very revealing stage debut.

The Terminator stands guard over New Zealand artist Simon Denny's visually complex, creepy and witty Venice Biennale installation Secret Power, which opened this week.

A reader writes: Can you tell me why an otherwise great sculpture on Dominion Rd has a horrible red barrier around it?

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager has a new role as adviser and fact-checker for the NZ At Venice Biennale 2015 art project 'Secret Power'.

They were sketched amid the hell of Gallipoli, drew the complements of the WW1 campaign’s foremost generals, and were later shown before the Royal Family.

The opening stage is set with a tall scarlet banner which flows, bloodlike, from the rafters and bears the names, of relatives of the company one suspects, lost to the savageries of war.

Matt Gauldie has been the New Zealand Army’s artist for 10 years. He talks to Jennifer Dann about his work and the places it has taken him.

The Kiss Inside, an exposition on the primal search for ecstasy, finds him in a new frame of mind though, with an underlying wryness to his observations, anger mitigated, the passion wiser.

Art critics are impressed with the controversial $1.5 million sculpture planned for Queens Wharf, but it has been labelled a monstrosity and joke by some.

A Brazilian artist has come up with a quirky solution of whether to rock a beard or go clean shaven in his new selfie project.

The controversial $1.5 million "lighthouse" sculpture on Queens Wharf is being made more in keeping with its state house roots.

Budding Kiwi artists will next week have the chance to wow a top Weta Workshop designer.