
Five of the best: Public art events
Get out and about this weekend and check out some local art works across Auckland.
Get out and about this weekend and check out some local art works across Auckland.
Jerome Bel's The Show Must Go On is not so much a dance show as a show about dance. Its conventions, constructions, its expected forms, are mostly stripped away.
Russell Baillie reviews the first night of Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly's Auckland Arts Festival season.
Rajendra Prasanna comes from generations of Indian master musicians. On Tuesday, thanks to him and his three colleagues, a rapt audience fell under the spell of a music in which time itself seemed almost to stand still.
Robert Redford says he is planning to launch a four-day version of the Sundance Film Festival in London.
In Auckland, we're in the middle of an Arts Festival. All over town there are actors, musicians, dancers and pornographic puppets doing their artistic business at myriad venues.
Bernard Orsman talks to the people behind a most generous offering to Auckland.
The 42 Indian musicians of The Manganiyar Seduction work their wiles in the glare of red and light-bulbs, piled up in a grid inspired by Amsterdam's red-light district.
Wildlife artist Chris Gaskin spends hours drawing the intricate patterns on a bird.
Martha Wainwright describes her look as "ageless" - she is poised on the stage dressed like a school-girl with hair all wispy like her grandmother's.
Maguy Marin's landmark work, celebrating 30 feted years of continuous performance, begins with the sculptured forms of its ten dancers, posed in dusty alabaster-like desertion.