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Paul Little: Art paints a picture about us
A healthy amount of public art tells you a lot about a community, writes Paul Little.

The play making people faint
Titus Andronicus, the “grotesquely violent” Shakespearean tale of revenge, has 14 deaths, many violently bloody, as well as rape and mutilation.

Our literary luminaries
Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton is among the finalists in the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards.

Eleanor Catton back in print
Man Booker prize winner Eleanor Catton is to publish her first work since landing one of the literary world's most coveted prizes.

Monty Python tickets at half price after mixed reviews
Tickets for Monty Python's "sold out" reunion shows are being offered at discount rates on ticket re-sale site Groupon in the UK.

Michele Hewitson interview: David Mitchell
Architect David Mitchell has just returned from Venice where he's been doing a turn as the creative director and host of the NZ pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Who is Picasso's mystery man?
Art experts have revealed how they found a hidden painting beneath one of Pablo Picasso's first great works, "The Blue Room".