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James Griffin: In celebration of infrastucture
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.

A monumental gift of history for Gulf's future
Bernard Orsman talks to the people behind a most generous offering to Auckland.

Artist finds inspiration in birds of gulf islands
Wildlife artist Chris Gaskin spends hours drawing the intricate patterns on a bird.

Arts Festival Review: Martha Wainwright
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.

Arts Festival Review: May B
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.

Arts Festival Review: La Odisea
Teatro de Los Andes, based in Bolivia, offered to stage their "earthquake play" here instead of La Odisea, but were turned down for logistical reasons.

Arts Festival Review: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
If you are looking for a show that is funny and uplifting, it is unlikely that you would settle on something that has interminable and suicide in its title.

Fringe Festival Review: The Turn of the Screw
When the Basement theatre is packed out at 10pm on a Monday night for a local production based on a 19th century novella by Henry James, I think it is safe to say the Auckland Fringe Festival and the Auckland Arts Festival are going off.

Fringe Festival Review: Drowning in Veronica Lake
Boldly and cleverly, this Flaxworks solo show is built upon one solitary, striking symbol of celebrity.

Arts Festival Review: Loin... (Far...)
French dancer-choreographer Rachid Ouramdane's multimedia performance reviewed by Raewyn White