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5 things you have to see at Auckland Artweek
With Auckland Artweek beginning on Friday, we pinned down programme facilitator Marlaina Key and forced her to reveal her favourites from the 10-day festival.
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Work of art includes mystery cab ride
$50,000 winner cuts through exhibition system like a knife, says judge.
![Mantel's Thatcher assassination fantasy](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mantel's Thatcher assassination fantasy
Booker-prize-winning author admits she thought about killing the British PM when she found herself within shooting range of her in 1983.
![Earth, wind, fire and steam](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Earth, wind, fire and steam
By the end of his career, Turner exhibited less frequently, received fewer commissions, and retreated into his work.
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Celebrating 80 years of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen celebrates his 80th birthday on Sunday and releases a new album next week. He talks to Neil McCormick about what keeps him going.
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Maori art sets $2.3m record
A world record has been set at auction for a piece of Maori art, which fetched more than $2 million.
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Hundertwasser makes an entrance
The roof of a school's library entrance will be only the second public structure designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Palm tree v art collection
Phoenix palm is threatening the financial viability of the Pah Homestead in Auckland, the permanent home of Sir James Wallace art collection.
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Strong dollar hits value of gallery's art
Take international works by masters Renoir, Michelangelo, Tissot, Picasso and Millais, as well as a cache of highly prized New Zealand works by Colin McCahon and Charles F. Goldie.
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Cloud over Black Widow portrait
A controversial artist's portrait of a convicted murderer could be destroyed if allegations of copyright infringement are pursued through the courts.
![When the money man comes home](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
When the money man comes home
There's a term used in New York to describe a certain type of businessman: the $50 million man.
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NZ Opera's seductive Don Giovanni
Auckland opera audiences have become accustomed to having Verdi and Puccini presented through the eyes of female directors from across the Tasman.
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Don Giovanni: A villain admired and vilified
Goethe was outraged by the suggestion that Mozart merely composed Don Giovanni "as if it were a piece of cake or biscuits stirred together out of eggs, flour and sugar!"
![TJ McNamara on art: Threads of rich emotion](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
TJ McNamara on art: Threads of rich emotion
The dexterity of an artist's technique means the viewer can often be involved in the action of the moving hand as well as the unspoken thoughts that might underlie a painting.
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Classical review: Psathas piece retains allure
Despite the temptation to stay home and catch Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Glennie at Olympus concert streamed live, there was almost a capacity turnout at the Town Hall.
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Resist temptation to go straight up
Go play with the 12m of white Lego in the Auckland Art Gallery main atrium - it's great fun, it's free and it's there for six months.
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Demons and dragons clinch art award
A painting of the coastline around Otago Harbour populated by macabre medieval demons and dragons has won the Paramount Award in last night's annual Wallace Art Awards.
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Sexy circus heads to NZ
A new circus with characters including the 'Half Naked Asian Dude Wearing Pigtails from Japan' will begin touring New Zealand for the first time later this year.
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Mystery artist finally acknowledged
It didn't take a historian to know the painting was of Gallipoli, but it did take a gallery director turned art detective to work out who painted it.