EntertainmentSeriously Playing the FoolMicahel Hurst dons the Fool costume for King Lear, three decades after first tackling the role. By Barney McDonald.09 Mar 06:00 PM
EntertainmentRevisiting the 17th century with elegance and attitudeThe cover of Max Emanuel Cencic's Venezia says it all. The Croatian countertenor is all elegance, in dinner jacket and cravat, in front of an ornate wallpaper that might adorn the walls of a Venetian palazzo.09 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleSon for the return homeAuckland Art Gallery director Chris Saines leaves next week for Queensland after 17 years of working towards the gallery’s expansion and rejuvenation. But he’ll be back one day, he tells Linda Herrick.08 Mar 08:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Heartbreak HotelBritish author Deborah Moggach returns to the rickety hotel setting that earned her big box-office success, writes Stephen Jewell08 Mar 05:00 PM
EntertainmentThe Breath of the VolcanoPictures from the opening night of the Auckland Arts Festival performance by French pyrotechnical wizards Groupe F07 Mar 04:30 PM
New ZealandDazzling, hypnotic wizardsJust go see this. French pyrotechnical wizards Groupe F offer a superlative, splendiferous, explosive extravaganza. Artistic director Christophe Berthonneau and his team, and Red Leap Theatre, are to be congratulated.07 Mar 04:20 PM
EntertainmentReview: En route, Auckland CBDWalking tours - especially those guided by a remote, apparently all-seeing, all-knowing central HQ - are full of tantalising possibilities: where will I be going? How will I know how to get there?06 Mar 10:10 PM
EntertainmentReview: Cantina, Aotea Square<i>Cantina</i> opens with a velvety voiced crooner promising to "shoot the moon right out of the sky" and honours that with an exhilarating acrobatics display set in the seductive ambience of a 1920s speak-easy.06 Mar 09:35 PM
EntertainmentReview: The Factory, Q TheatrePacific Les Mis musical hugely leavened by romance, humour and funky 70s style06 Mar 09:25 PM
New ZealandSculptor 'overwhelmed' by Venice invitationA Dunedin artist has been invited to show his work at one of the world's most prestigious art exhibitions.05 Mar 04:51 AM
OpinionBrian Rudman: City's cultural desert is a mirageWhat Auckland's cultural scene does lack, when it comes to Ateed and Aucklanders in general, is a true appreciation of the goodies that are on offer on their doorsteps.03 Mar 08:30 PM
KahuHotere's body arrives at MitimitiThe body of artist Ralph Hotere arrived to emotional scenes at Mitimiti in Northland this afternoon.01 Mar 02:28 AM
KahuThousands farewell celebrated artist Ralph HotereThousands of people filled St Joseph's Cathedral in Dunedin today to farewell celebrated artist Ralph Hotere.28 Feb 01:36 AM
KahuTiny marae set for big tangiIn Mitimiti yesterday, John Martin was at the urupa, the cemetery where his cousin Ralph Hotere will lie when his body is flown by helicopter to the beachside marae.25 Feb 04:30 PM
KahuHotere to be farewelled with requiem mass before tangiArtist Ralph Hotere, 81, who was one of only a handful of people to be made a Member of the Order of New Zealand, died peacefully in Dunedin yesterday.25 Feb 04:03 AM
KahuHotere work to be exhibited this weekA series of Ralph Hotere prints are being exhibited at University of Canterbury this week in a tribute to one of New Zealand's greatest artists who died yesterday.25 Feb 01:41 AM
KahuGreat artist who didn't like a fussTributes are flowing for 81-year-old sculptor, painter and collaborative artist Ralph Hotere, who died surrounded by family in Dunedin.24 Feb 04:30 PM
