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Jewels on the horizon

In painting, even at its most abstract, a strong horizontal across a work is inescapably read as a horizon.

Auckland Arts Festival: A question of humanity

"I don't make lollies!" Lemi Ponifasio is talking about the often-extreme reaction to his latest production, I AM, from which many audience members walked out when it was staged at last year's Edinburgh International Festival.

Lean and virile Shostakovich

On Thursday, Kathryn Stott caps off her first visit to our coundty playing Shostakovich with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.

Classic CD: Sokolov, The Salzburg Recital

Deutsche Grammophon must be very happy to have Grigory Sokolov in its stable. The Russian came to the notice of the world in 1966, winning the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition at only 16.

Egg hunt to raise funds for sick kids

Super-sized eggs of all colours are to be placed around the country - making for the ultimate Easter egg hunt.

Choosing a quake memorial

Confessions of an erotic writer

Award-winning Auckland playwright Elisabeth Easther was once an erotic fiction writer. As Fifty Shades of Grey hits our screens, she reveals the highs and lows of her short-lived career in smut.

The machine that animates forgotten furniture

macbEth: There will be blood

T.J. McNamara: Paying homage to the master

Patricia Greig: Music with a conscience takes us all on a journey

High above the K Rd kingdom, opposite St Kevins Arcade, is Kfm, a station that aims to provide a soundtrack to the heart of Auckland's music-centric community.

Roll up for fringe benefits

A sweet little old lady

Teen painter receives world's best marks

A NZ student who took only two years of art classes has received the best subject marks in the world in the Cambridge International Examinations.

Classic CD review: Summer in February, Anonymous 4 1865, Simon Keenlyside

Paul Thomas: Hysterical 'intellectuals' fail the Hitchens test

Sections of the left-wing intelligentsia appear to believe the Eleanor Catton brouhaha says something disturbing about New Zealand.

Phallic art stuns residents

'Oh my God, it's a cock and balls.' A $200,000 public sculpture being installed in Auckland is causing a stir with locals, who say it resembles a penis.

Legend given flesh and humanity

How to bring a legend to life? That was the challenge for film-maker Ava DuVernay when she was given the opportunity to direct - what is remarkably - the first major motion picture about Martin Luther King.