ARTSPACE launches new billboard project
If you're passing through K'Road, check out the newest art project on the block: at the top end of Karangahape Road and Symonds Street, ARTSPACE is using one of the Langham Hotel's billboards to…
Watch Flight of the Conchords pilot online
To promote Flight of the Conchords' new comedy show, American cable television network HBO is letting the pilot episode be shown freely on websites and blogs. "We're really proud of the show and the…
TBI Q&A: Karyn Hay
Karyn Hay is an award-winning novelist. In the distant past she fronted Radio with Pictures and now she is General Manager of the musically adventurous and gratifying KiwiFM. She never wanted a…
Tuhonohono perform to celebrate Matariki
To celebrate Matariki in June, Chamber Music New Zealand presents Tuhonohono performing works by renowned New Zealand composer Gillian Karawe Whitehead. "Tuhonohono" means to bring together, to…
Niki Caro to direct The Vintner's Luck
NZ filmmaker Niki Caro is to direct a screen adaptation of The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox. An irresistible story of love, wine and angels, it tells the tale of Sobran, a peasant wine-maker in…
It's a Wonderful Tonight at Enjoy Gallery
Over the past two years, artist Louise Clifton has created a series of photographic portraits based around a mysterious figure in a red suit. Clad head to toe in skin-tight material, the red-man is…
2007 New Zealand Post Book Award winners
An interpretation of the South Pacific's history has won New Zealand's most prestigious children's book award.
Debut feature for NZ director announced
Announced recently in Cannes, The Strength of Water will be the debut feature from award-winning New Zealand director Armagan Ballantyne. Written by acclaimed NZ playwright Briar Grace-Smith…
NZSO announces wunderkind as music director
After a two-year international search, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has announced young Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen as Music Director from 2008. "I am delighted that Pietari Inkinen will…
Toycology exhibition at Wellington's Thistle Hall
Toycology - an exhibition of new photography by Adi Brown - opens at Thistle Hall on 22 May. Influenced by 19th century tableau photography and studio portraiture, Toycology explores the relationship…
Straight from the Heart - An Afternoon of Opera
A benefit concert for soprano Paloma Bruce will be held on 3 June 2007. The concert will feature tenor Ben Makisi (known as the 'Polynesian Pavarotti'), baritone Phillip Rhodes (winner of 2007 Lexus…
They Were Young Once - at Satellite Gallery
They Were Young Once celebrates the evolving nature of New Zealand's cultural identity by exhibiting the works of young emerging artists alongside those of their established and well-known…