TBI Q&A: Paula J Booker
Wellington-based curator and art writer Paula J Booker reveals that the first Artists Film Festival started in 2005 with no budget and a borrowed popcorn machine and projector. "It was great and…
Here I am, Hello'
Here I am, Hello' is a proclamation about life in a big city, about not quite belonging and about feeling left behind. It seems everywhere I go there are different rules on how to eat, how to…
Peter Jackson's restored Gallipoli film projected onto Museum
The rare film Heroes of Gallipoli will be projected onto the Auckland War Memorial Museum in the lead-up to this year's ANZAC Day from April 22-24. The film includes scenes of British, New Zealand…
Beating themselves up for art's sake
Singing to Janis Joplin until you almost pass out, hyperventilating on camera and generating electricity for hours on end all sound like difficult ways to pass the time. What is it with a current…
The hidden faces of war
"Sacrifice in war is not just about names on the roll of honour. When you look at these men, you realise that sacrifice is literally inscribed on their tissue and skin," says Sandy Callister. For…
The hidden faces of war
"Sacrifice in war is not just about names on the roll of honour. When you look at these men, you rea
The hidden faces of war
"Sacrifice in war is not just about names on the roll of honour. When you look at these men, you realise that sacrifice is literally inscribed on their tissue and skin," says Sandy Callister. For…
What Goes Around, Comes Around
"They look like kids' drawings" is an easy response. Look again. After thirty years as a commercial artist illustrating other people's scripts and merchandise, it seems only fair Scott Kennedy has a…
I AM TV - new youth show on TV2
Set to hit your television screens this weekend is TV2's new creative content-driven youth show, I AM TV. Gabrielle Paringatai and Olly Coddington, former presenters for long-running TV2…
ERUPT Lake Taupo Festival
Feel the earth move at ERUPT Lake Taupo Festival, an action packed programme inspired by the fiery elements of the central North Island volcanic plateau. ERUPT is the reincarnation of the biennial…
The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin
They're funny, frenetic and fabulous and there's never a dull moment when you live beside The Boys Next Door. This funny yet very touching play, at Dolphin Theatre in Onehunga from April 19,…
Auckland Art Gallery farewells Peter Tomory
Peter Tomory, the second full time professional director of the Auckland City Art Gallery, Emeritus Professor of Art History and collector and connoisseur of fine European prints, died on Tuesday 25…