EntertainmentBill Culbert - 2013 Venice BiennaleBill Culbert, New Zealand's artist for the 2013 Venice Biennale.29 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentTwelve Questions: Sam NeillDid you always think the name Nigel was a bit of a liability?27 May 05:30 PM
EntertainmentTwelve Questions: Albert WendtI feel privileged and honoured. The recurring fear is: Have I wasted my life writing?22 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleWriters saluted on festival's final dayThe final day of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival was bookended by standing ovations for two of New Zealand's ground-breaking writers of the past 50 years.19 May 05:30 PM
EntertainmentWriters Festival: Unexpected pathsThe big issue with writers' festivals is that you can't be at three or four events at once. So the rich array of offerings presented the ongoing dilemma of which writer to see.19 May 01:27 AM
New ZealandWriters Festival: Giant books bring the past to lifeRutherfurd, whose new tome is called <i>Paris</i>, had an extra hour added to yesterday's Writers & Readers schedule after selling out tomorrow and recalled having to speak to a row of schoolboys scowling at him.17 May 05:30 PM
EntertainmentNude Golden Girl fetches $2mA painting of actress Bea Arthur topless has sold for US$1.9 million at a New York City auction.17 May 03:49 AM
WorldAuction brings in world record US$495mA Jean-Michel Basquiat painting has set a new auction record for the graffiti artist at a sale of postwar and contemporary art in New York.16 May 07:08 PM
OpinionTheatre review: Blunt assessment of child abusePatua means "to hit, kill, subdue, ill-treat", and writer-director Renae Maihi bravely takes on the subject of child abuse in the 75 nicely paced minutes of this, her second play.16 May 05:30 PM
New ZealandWriters Festival: Revealed - a name of shameThe city of Auckland was named after "a dud ex-colonial mediocrity who stuffed up on a quite spectacular scale", says British historian William Dalrymple.15 May 06:27 PM
EntertainmentInto the depthsThe biggest game in town is Michael Parekowhai et al at Michael Lett. It combines the talents of an artist and a collective.10 May 05:30 PM
EntertainmentHistory lessonsMichal Dworzynski will launch the Auckland Philharmonia's Splendour Series.10 May 05:30 PM
EntertainmentHome on the rangeFive colossal iron clydesdales have joined the array of sculptures adorning Sir Michael Hill's golf course and sculpture park in Queenstown. Sir Richard Taylor, of Weta Workshop, will unveil the horses at the seventh hole at The Hills tomorrow.10 May 05:30 PM
New ZealandAuckland through the eyes of artistsCars slowed and heads turned as almost 200 brightly coloured mood sticks were carried through central Auckland by people with white gloves.09 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleKate Moss photo auctionWorks of art featuring the model Kate Moss have gone up for auction at Christie's in London. From an photograph of Moss from a Calvin Klein campaign in 1993 to a recent shot of her in a bronze body suit, the model is an iconic figure on the catwalk. The British model's career spans over two decades and she continues to front numerous campaigns today.08 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentReview: A feast of fiddlingJulia Fischer's new CD with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich under David Zinman is a clever concerto combo that will hopefully bring the lesser-known Dvorak to listeners initially drawn to the more popular Bruch.03 May 05:30 PM
EntertainmentGoing on a crash courseIf there's one thing George Henare can't do to prepare for his latest role - as chauffeur Hoke Colburn in the play Driving Miss Daisy - it is draw upon his own driving experiences.03 May 05:30 PM
