How art can be the counterpoint to a superficial CNN world
The Venice Biennale is an event that always galvanizes the art world. From the four corners of the globe, critics, artists, collectors and curators converge to chew on the new. This year, writes…
A Mandatory celebration of style
Wellington's wealth of style, sounds and fabulous people come together in July as iconic men's fashion label Mandatory celebrates its tenth birthday.
NZ's largest literary award goes to Dunedin author
Dunedin author Neville Peat has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship to write a major work about the Tasman Sea. Peat said the Fellowship will also allow…
The Real Art Roadshow: paintings free to be themselves
By Mark Amery Courtesy of The Dominion Post 16/6/07 The collection of 63 New Zealand paintings currently hanging at Waikanae's Mahara Gallery is so strong and vital - dare I predict it, so…
New Opera Season - just $25 for under 25s
The NBR New Zealand Opera's NZI Winter Season of Lucia di Lammermoor opens in Wellington on Saturday 23 June, and anyone aged under 25 can attend for just $25! www.nzopera.com
Father of modern African writing wins 2007 Man Booker
African writer Chinua Achebe is the winner of the second Man Booker International Prize. The prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body…
Rachel Weisz to star in The Lovely Bones
British actress and Oscar winner Rachel Weisz has just signed for Peter Jackson's next feature film The Lovely Bones written by American author Alice Sebold. Weisz will play the mother of…
No Politics. No Stars. No Bullsh*t
Auckland filmmaker Andy Conlan is pleased to announce that his first feature film, The Last Magic Show, has been selected to play in Competition at the 2007 Dances With Films Festival in Hollywood,…
ArTea Party, Auckland, 23Jun07
ArTea Party - Charity Art Sale 3:30 - 6pm, Sat 23rd June 2007 @ The Crib, 151 Ponsonby Road http://www.arteaparty.blogspot.com ArTea Aims: To raise awareness of Fairtrade products & increase…
Edward Tufte - Minister of Information
The graphic design genius Edward Tufte, also known as The Leonardo da Vinci of Data, is famous for his pithy koans to the design communication industry, "To clarify, add detail", "Content counts most…
16 Virtuoso Ways to Take Up Space
Objectivity. 16 Virtuoso Ways to Take Up Space is an artist organized travelling exhibition with sponsorship from the Percy Thomson Gallery in Stratford, Taranaki. Opening this Sunday 17 June until…
Think With the Senses at this year's Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale 2007 opened this week with its theme Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Curator Robert Storr writes, " The history of art is a fabric of epiphanies woven by many hands…