Art

Having spotted the white Spiegeltent at the Viaduct recently and being quite intrigued as to what was going on inside, I was very excited to be at the Smoke and Mirrors show which was part of the Auckland Arts Festival programme…

From pretentious art, a delicious tasting menu, and best use of nubile young models, we look at our highlights of Urbis Designday 2011 from the worthy to the downright wacky…

Urbis Design day is a great opportunity to discover and rediscover great local design talent and they’ve expanded fashion designer-showroom pairings to also include graphic designers, artists, interior designers and multimedia artists…

One wouldn’t think that a Marlborough wine would go well with a Taiwanese drumming show, but the two are surprisingly well paired. ‘Sound of the Ocean’ at Auckland Arts Festival is a well-sculpted show…

With the opening of the new Essenze space further down the hill than the original, smaller shopfront, New Zealand design takes a credible step forward. My personal favourite is the new team from MOAD (Ministry of Art and Design)…

Vietnamese Water Puppets or ‘how to introduce your kids to the Auckland Festival.’ Arts festivals are great for those of us who like to think we are sophisticated and cultured, but how did we get to that point?

In this age of oh-so-desirable immortality, the yoga, facelifts, the forty-somethings still having “fun nights” out on the town all point to one thing – the complete and incontrovertible fear of death. Through the 50 minute Fringe theatre, Chalk…

The moment I walked into the venue I knew it was going to be unlike any performance I had ever seen before. The concept of the Auckland Fringe Festival show Homeless Economics was a look into the state of homelessness in Auckland…

The Auckland Fringe Festival production by Interacting Theatre, a Disability Arts Theatre Company, turns expectations about ability and disability upside down, just as the players in A Midsummer Night’s Dream render love topsy-turvy…

‘I still dream of you’ by Fannie Flagg is the first book up for a look. Fanny Flagg wrote the gorgeous “Fried Green Tomatoes” which I can unashamedly say is still one of my favourite films. A quirky goodie of a story about an ex-beauty queen…