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Wallace award for tapa art
This year's Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award was presented last night at Pah Homestead in Auckland to a Hamilton-based pacific artist.
![Review: NZSO, Auckland Town Hall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: NZSO, Auckland Town Hall
Simone Young and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra returns with a monumental Bruckner Eighth Symphony.
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Arts fight back at the square
The city's arts, culture and civic precinct around Aotea Square is fighting back against the drift of corporate offices, apartments, shops and restaurants.
![Michele Hewitson interview: C.K. Stead](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Michele Hewitson interview: C.K. Stead
New Zealand's newest poet laureate says his latest accolade is 'very acceptable' but you suspect he'd rather talk about his love of cats of dogs.
![Student's first commission to paint Queen's portrait](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Student's first commission to paint Queen's portrait
A student painter in the UK had completed only twenty similar works when he received an unexpected commission.
![Children, let your imagination run wild](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Children, let your imagination run wild
Budding artists can create, draw and build at interactive installation at Auckland Art Gallery.
![Shakespeare's classic comedy spellbinding](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Shakespeare's classic comedy spellbinding
If you are going to do fairies there can be no holding back, so wunderkind English choreographer Liam Scarlett unashamedly mixes.
![Auckland's best suburban art](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Auckland's best suburban art
Hundreds of artworks adorn Auckland, highlighting our culture and diversity, finds Sarah Ell.
![Classical review: APO, Auckland Town Hall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Classical review: APO, Auckland Town Hall
Some of us have become cynical about the lure of the exotic, thanks to the loose and fatuous language of the advertising industry.
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Flox's Asian inspiration (+watch)
Auckland artist Flox has spent three months in Taipei trying to find some walls to spray-paint. Asia is an untapped source of inspiration, she tells Linda Herrick
![The world's most depressing theme park](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
The world's most depressing theme park
A seaside "bemusement park" unveiled by Banksy has sparked controversy by featuring a Cinderella pumpkin crash sculpture which echos Princess Diana's death.
![NZ Dance Company's Lumina 'hypnotic'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
NZ Dance Company's Lumina 'hypnotic'
The three choreographers contributing state of the art pieces for this ground-breaking season with the New Zealand Dance Company were given the brief of "light, illumination, space, image and movement" by the company's artistic director Shona McCullagh.
![T.J. McNamara: Feeling fine with flexible felt](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
T.J. McNamara: Feeling fine with flexible felt
Felt might seem an unlikely medium for sculpture but Peter Robinson has become devoted to it. His latest expression of its qualities can be seen at Hopkinson Mossman Gallery.