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.

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

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

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

One of Auckland's best-known streets, Dominion Rd, will be sharing some of its history in a unique way this weekend.

The Scottish National Theatre makes an exuberant return to ale-house culture with a riotously funny and at times tenderly lyrical tribute to Scottish narrative ballads.

Screens filled with red clouds at dawn start this contemporary circus with hip-hop styling, but instead of a shepherd's warning, they herald a city delight.

Almost halfway through the Auckland Arts Festival, advance ticket sales are at a record high.

One of the subjects of a remarkable new Maori TV series on the descendants of those painted by Gottfried Lindauer is businessman, Treaty negotiator and new chief of Auckland Council's Southern Initiative John McEnteer.

This rich 1999 experimental classic from China is stylish, hip, humorous, streetwise - and hopelessly romantic: under youth's swagger are youth's desperate illusions.

We had come to the Civic Theatre to hear Haydn and Mozart from Kronos Quartet; in partnership with pipa virtuoso Wu Man, the Americans were offering a rare mingling of music and magic.