Photographer Roberta Thornley is a sentimental collector who finds pleasure in everyday objects as well as treasured artworks.

American billionaire Josephine Robertson, a major benefactor to the Auckland Art Gallery, has died.

Seizing the dark heart of the show Ross Girven captures the haunted nature of Sweeney Todd's psychosis.

The films include a silent feature by legendary director John Ford, a number of early one-reel Westerns and period drama starring glamorous 1920s screen siren Clara Bow.

Solo performer Gareth Williams takes us on a delightfully whimsical journey inside his head.

This debut work by local drama teacher Andy Saker shows an easy familiarity with the North Shore's casual backyard culture.

Predictably, the star of last weekend's visit by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra was Dame Malvina Major.

The SkyCity Theatre looks set to become a cabaret space or sports theatre, leaving a gaping hole in venues for the city's performing arts.

There was a buzz and a bustle in the Town Hall foyer as punters collected tickets for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Happy Hour concert.

As she did at her exceptional Town Hall show in 2003, on this return visit Ute Lemper proved persuasively she doesn't merely deliver a concert of songs.

Opening with the eternal question - 'what do you do with a BA in English?' - Avenue Q dispenses a bright and breezy antidote to the pressures of life in the big city.

Poets of their Age presented three first-generation Romantic composers coming to terms with the expressive potential of the symphony orchestra.

Fell, a 2010 Billy T. Award Nominee, is rude, suggestive and sex-crazed, asking the many audience members he uses during the show about their sex lives.

There are fewer Indian jokes this year, even though they are clearly what the audience is after - the thick accents Mohanbhai did pull out had the room roaring.

Four glass artists tell us why they chose the medium and what inspires their unique creations.

At its most pure and best, jazz is a live art where musicians disassemble, explore, then reconstruct melodies and rhythms right before your ears.