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<i>Preview:</i> Nation at Rialto Newmarket
Terry Pratchett's alternate world as seen in the latest National Theatre film offering has a Kiwi tang.

A winning Fourmyula
The pioneering band who gave us Nature - regarded as the best Kiwi song ever.

<i>Rebecca Barry:</i> Kookaburra only one laughing
Didn't Sinclair plagiarise a kookaburra when she came up with the original tune plagiarised by Men At Work?

Walking Man kick-starts art market
Auction houses say their expectations are being exceeded for artwork sale prices, including the record $149 million bid for Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme Qui Marche 1.

<i>Jim Hopkins:</i> Scientist's racy novel turns up the heat
The worlds of climate change and steamy sex collide ... and a classic is born.

Clumsy art student falls, rips Picasso
An art student invited the to Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ripped a Picasso masterpiece after losing her balance and falling into the work of art.

Survivors tell author tsunami nightmares
Samoan writer Lani Wendt Young has been commissioned to take down the stories of hundreds of people affected by the Pacific tsunami.

Seurat's grand triumph of light
Chicagoans believe they have stolen a march on the French over Georges Seurat's painting and indeed they have.

Roaming around the Pacific
The Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane has gradually expanded to include art from 25 countries, with New Zealand's contribution this year the most playful.

A cute little heart breaker
Touching operatic allegory parallels lives of man and beast.