Legendary New Zealand entertainer and Maori music icon Sir Howard Morrison has passed away. Sir Howard Morrison died in Rotorua today, aged 74.

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The Big Idea’s resident fashion designer Margaret Lewis (AKA Knitter at Heart) reports from the runway at Air New Zealand Fashion Week 2009.

Read some of her highlights, see the Show gallery for more collections and check out the NZ Fashion Week 09 Feature for stories and designer Q&As.

Auckland Theatre Company’s production of Bruce Mason’s The Pohutukawa Tree starring Rena Owen as Aroha Mataira has set a new company box office record for classic plays. The season has proven more popular than Auckland Theatre Company’s international classics of recent years.

Auckland photographer, sculptor and video artist Richard Maloy is the inaugural recipient of the Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award, a three month residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in the Marin Headlands near San Francisco.

A competition will be rerun to design a gateway sculpture for the northern entrance to Wellington City following the decision not to pursue the 'Hook of Maui and Receding Waters'.

The 24hr Theatre Challenge is back at Titirangi Theatre this year with its unique format that encourages local actors, playwrights and directors to showcase their talents.

Andrew Harbott has won the inaugural, nationwide Hallensteins and Prodesign search for New Zealand’s best t-shirt designer.

The Designer Garage Sale at Air New Zealand Fashion Weekend is becoming an important event in its own right on the New Zealand fashion calendar.

Composition of a new Trans-Tasman work has begun this week as the NZTrio and Australian Stuart Greenbaum work together in Auckland.

The latest offering at TheNewDowse’s monthly Late Lounge event is an evening of musical genius with Rosy Tin Teacaddy.

Ross Harris has won the SOUNZ Contemporary Award - for the fourth time with his Symphony III.

James Milne (Lawrence Arabia) and Luke Buda have been awarded the APRA Silver Scroll for the best NZ song of the year ‘Apple Pie Bed’. 

Having sung in front of large audiences around the country with standing-ovation performances at WOMAD, the Tauranga and Taupo Arts Festivals, the Festival of Colour in Wanaka and the Wellington Jazz festival, now is the time for Jubilation to bring it home. 

Enjoy presents Role. Play, a succinct cross section of contemporary art practice featuring the work of three New Zealand artists.

The exhibition 'Ecology.Design.Synergy' looks into sustainable building and intelligent architecture as well as how human beings perceive their environment through their senses. From 8 October in Auckland.