Nigel Benson

It could be said that David Bain was "framed" in Dunedin last week.

A 1959 work by the late New Zealand artist, Colin McCahon, has sold for a record auction price in Melbourne.

One of New Zealand's finest private collections of Ralph Hotere works will be shipped out of Port Chalmers this weekend.

A collection of art works by Ralph Hotere is to be removed from the Careys Bay Hotel.

He paints post-apocalyptic landscapes which stand as silent witnesses to unspeakable events. But he's not sure why.

Royal New Zealand Ballet dancers have arrived in Dunedin for the company's double dance bill starting tonight.

There are a million stories in the naked city and a fair few of them are going to be about sex this month.

A quartet of Otago Daily Times Aria winners will join voices for a special concert this weekend.

Swan Lake meets Braveheart when the Royal New Zealand Ballet visits Dunedin for two performances next week. Nigel Benson previews La Sylphide.

It might be wintertime in Otago, but it's "Springtime for Hitler" as Dunedin Operatic's The Producers goose-steps into town.

He's a former bad boy whose firebrand conducting has been described as "red hot".

It will be something of a united nations of music in the Glenroy Auditorium this weekend, with an Australian clarinettist and a German conductor presenting a suite of Italian, German and Russian works. Nigel Benson previews "Summer in Italy".

There are twenty million reasons to grab a ticket to the Fortune this week.

You never know what you're going to find when you start looking under rocks ... Nigel Benson turns rock hound for a day.

It's the time of year when most sensible creatures are hibernating. Nigel Benson looks for the perfect sleep.

Maori art goes pop in Dunedin this week. And so do a lot of misconceptions about New Zealand culture.

Your mother is dying. Dying a painful, miserable death. What do you do? Nigel Benson meets Sean Davison, who faced such a decision.

There's more to Russia than vodka and borscht, as a new Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition shows.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the David Bain murder retrial was the contrast in court coverage from the original trial, 14 years ago.