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Queer stories bring spectrum of experience
Watching Victor Rodger's hit play Black Faggot gave emerging theatre writer, director and producer Bruce Brown an idea.
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Journey of rediscovery
Auckland missed The Hanging Sky, the recent survey exhibition of work by Shane Cotton that toured New Zealand and Australia.
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Creepy statue causes protest
A sculpture of a half-naked, sleep-walking man in the middle of a college campus has drawn hundreds of complaints from students.
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Cordelia's passion for pics
Playing with her dad's old camera as a youngster led to a full-grown passion for photography for Auckland teenager Cordelia Norris.
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Brian Rudman: Little discussion on waterfront sculpture
What grates is the cavalier, non-consultative process involved in the selection of the Queens Wharf site, writes Brian Rudman. As far as I can ascertain, it's been presented as a fait accompli to Waterfront Auckland.
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Acclaim for Christchurch quake artist
New Zealand artist Ruth Stirnimann has won an international art competition in Rome for her symbolic abstract work on the Christchurch earthquakes.
![Dropout's tale told on stage](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Dropout's tale told on stage
Otara teenager Sipa Deidoe had never been inside a theatre until he came into the Aotea Centre for a first meeting about a new arts project late last year.
![Strangers who look like twins](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Strangers who look like twins
Photographer Francois Brunelle has travelled the world photographing people who look alike.
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Our Lorde on the wall for $30,000
Lorde has been immortalised by one of the country's top artists. A photo of the unframed oval painting by Peter Stichbury was posted by the popstar's Instagram this week.
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Record year for high-end art
First it was fast cars, now there's another sign that the economy is on the up: the booming art market. Leading NZ auction house Webbs says 31,000 items went under the hammer this year, raking in $17m.