Renowned for his curving furniture and elegant lighting, lead designer David Trubridge's new book So Far explores his fascinating life and approach to design.

King Kong thunders into Melbourne this June. Rachel Grunwell meets the lead.

Anna Subritzky hatches a material plan to keep chickens in the burbs.

Open a cupboard at the new Artstation show, Cupboards, and you'll find shelves loaded with nostalgia.

Emma Watson has become the "English rose" Madame Tussauds after her wax figure was unveiled.

The take from an auction of rare New Zealand paintings is expected to top $2 million.

Tilda Swinton is sleeping in a glass box in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

A second brazen thief has struck at a New Zealand museum this week, with police now looking for a man who stole a sword from an art installation.

The Auckland Arts Festival's centrepiece demonstrates what happens when the sophisticated elegance of commedia dell'arte collides with the eccentric weirdness of classic British comedy.

So far, as an audience member during this Auckland Arts Festival and Fringe feast, I have enthusiastically eaten cake, sprinted down a city road, predicted the future with flashcards, sat cross-legged on a school mat, and jumped into a bouncy castle.

Auckland Arts Festival celebrates Benjamin Britten's centenary not once, but twice next week.

There's no place like Poland when it comes to celebrating Easter, discovers Danielle Wright

To some, Ferdinand Ries is best known as a minor planet spinning around the sun that was Beethoven.

Exhibitions that run during the Auckland Arts Festival should have some special factor that lifts them above the run of the mill.

Dozens of events all over Auckland will be shining brightly and busily tonight for Auckland Arts Festival's White Night, which stretches from the CBD to all corners of the city.