Art & Culture

New Zealand’s picturesque southern Lake Benmore, in the central South Island, will be recast as the Sea of Galilee in a new major film project set to begin production soon.

New Zealand singer Will Martin has become the youngest tenor in musical history to reach #1 in the British classical charts.

One of New Zealand’s best known entertainers, Rob Guest, has died in Melbourne.

New Zealand and the Republic of Korea have signed a film co-production agreement that will strengthen screen industry partnerships between the two countries.

Wellington costume designer Nadine Jaggi, who works for the Oscar-winning WETA Workshop, is the supreme award-winner at the 2008 Montana World of WearableArt.

A spectacular multimedia experience opening on September 27 crowns the 10th birthday celebrations of Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand’s national museum.

New Zealand author Patricia Grace has won the 2008 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Kiwi singer Brooke Fraser is proving a hit in the US with her latest album gaining a spot on the iTunes editors’ choice and the top ten charts.

British stand up comedian and TV ‘Chef’ Lenny Henry and his ‘Vicar of Dibley’ wife Dawn French are considering retirement in New Zealand.

A New Zealand artist whose work included a Maori version of the London Tube map has managed to break into the lucrative British market with an exhibition sell out.