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![Portrait of an artist: Billy Apple](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Portrait of an artist: Billy Apple
More than 50 years ago an artist from Auckland changed his name to Billy Apple and became a living brand. On the eve of a major retrospective of his life’s work, he talked to Greg Dixon about his past, his present and his future.
![Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, The Civic](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, The Civic
The It company from New York City boasts 14 of the best dancers that the money of its founder and funder Wal-Mart heiress, Nancy Laurie, can buy and what those 14 fabulously honed and interestingly diverse beings can do is certainly superb.
![Troupe finds strength in diversity](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Troupe finds strength in diversity
Since this is the first time New York dance company Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has come to New Zealand, members can be forgiven for not being sunsmart.
![Tapa cloth at heart of doctorate in art](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Tapa cloth at heart of doctorate in art
A Kiwi student has come up with an innovative way to show off her artistic photography - by using traditional Pacific tapa cloth.
![McCahon looms large over WWI tribute](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
McCahon looms large over WWI tribute
Activism through art specialist Lemi Ponifasio and Mau take Colin McCahon's iconic painting as a huge and architectural backdrop to their spellbinding tribute to the fallen of World War I - and take....
![Photos: Auckland Arts Festival 2015](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Photos: Auckland Arts Festival 2015
For the next two weeks, across Auckland, more than 100 world class shows - local and international - will astound and entertain.
![David Shrigley: A nice change of scenery](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
David Shrigley: A nice change of scenery
"It's going to be a family reunion mixed with work." Since his sister moved to the North Shore in 1999, David Shrigley has been a frequent visitor to New Zealand.
![T.J. McNamara: The husband who became an insect](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
T.J. McNamara: The husband who became an insect
The Pacific Rim is reflected in the Auckland Arts Festival with art from Japan, New Zealand and Samoa. Six artists from Japan at the St Paul Street Gallery make considerable demands on the viewer. Three long videos are full of angst, examining Japanese so
![Arts Festival must-see list](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival must-see list
Elisabeth Easther takes a look at the Auckland Arts Festival’s crowd-pleasers and finds plenty to both amuse and delight.
![Patrica Greig: You meet a wall and take it from there](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Patrica Greig: You meet a wall and take it from there
All artists take risks. Elliot Stewart once faced an oncoming train as he painted the inside of a tunnel.
![Weaving fine tapestry of music](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Weaving fine tapestry of music
I have always thought of Mere Boynton as one of Wellington's musical taonga; she trained as a singer at Victoria University and, in the 1990s, was a spellbinding performer at one of the city's....
![NZ on Screen: Five great art docos](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
NZ on Screen: Five great art docos
NZ On Screen Content Director Irene Gardiner selects five great New Zealand arts documentaries, to mark the start of the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival.
![All the thrills and spills of the circus](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
All the thrills and spills of the circus
Danik Abishev was born in the circus "I really didn't have a choice about becoming a performer," he says.