Latest from Arts & Literature

Two NZ short films to screen at Sundance

Film gives rare insight into Lennon's last day

Concert Review: Dudley Benson, <i>Oratia Settlers Hall</i>

<i>The Arrival</i> wins six awards at the Chapman Tripps

<i>The Arrival</i> was the big winner at the Chapman Tripp Wellington Theatre Awards which were handed out last night.

'Dark tower' plan looms over kindy

<i>Your Business:</i> Putting aside old ways key to new venture

Theatre Review: Toys, <i>The Basement</i>

Book Review: The Confession

John Grisham clearly felt deeply about this book - perhaps because he's recently become concerned about wrongful convictions, and the treatment of that theme here has a very passionate edge.

More than a little punk amid purl

<i>TJ McNamara</i>: Fables, illusions and hard rock

All a flutter over love

Art at times mediocre - but it sells

Theatre Review: Gagarin Way

<i>Gagarin Way</i> is about current political apathy; nonetheless it expects its audience to have a wee bit of political awareness, particularly vis-a-vis 20th century British history.

The Picassos at centre of theft storm

The mysterious emergence of 271 previously unknown works by Picasso could trigger a lengthy legal battle.

In the vein of Dracula

Stephen Jewell talks to director-turned-writer Guillermo Del Toro about his life post Middle-earth and the newly released second part of his spine-chilling vampire trilogy.

Picasso trove turns up in France

A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least €60m (NZ$105m).