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![Arts Festival Review: Rapt](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Rapt
When Douglas Wright sets his stage with a big grey wall, it's a wall with an enigmatic, palpable life of its own.
![Arts Festival Review: Paul Kelly A-Z, Town Hall Concert Chamber](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Paul Kelly A-Z, Town Hall Concert Chamber
Russell Baillie reviews the first night of Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly's Auckland Arts Festival season.
![Arts Festival Review: Spirit of India 2011: Shehnai and flute](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Spirit of India 2011: Shehnai and flute
Rajendra Prasanna comes from generations of Indian master musicians. On Tuesday, thanks to him and his three colleagues, a rapt audience fell under the spell of a music in which time itself seemed almost to stand still.
![Sundance Film Festival comes to London](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Sundance Film Festival comes to London
Robert Redford says he is planning to launch a four-day version of the Sundance Film Festival in London.
![James Griffin: In celebration of infrastucture](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
James Griffin: In celebration of infrastucture
In Auckland, we're in the middle of an Arts Festival. All over town there are actors, musicians, dancers and pornographic puppets doing their artistic business at myriad venues.
![A monumental gift of history for Gulf's future](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
A monumental gift of history for Gulf's future
Bernard Orsman talks to the people behind a most generous offering to Auckland.
![Arts Festival Review: The Manganiyar Seduction](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: The Manganiyar Seduction
The 42 Indian musicians of The Manganiyar Seduction work their wiles in the glare of red and light-bulbs, piled up in a grid inspired by Amsterdam's red-light district.
![Artist finds inspiration in birds of gulf islands](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Artist finds inspiration in birds of gulf islands
Wildlife artist Chris Gaskin spends hours drawing the intricate patterns on a bird.
![Arts Festival Review: May B](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: May B
Maguy Marin's landmark work, celebrating 30 feted years of continuous performance, begins with the sculptured forms of its ten dancers, posed in dusty alabaster-like desertion.
![Arts Festival Review: La Odisea](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: La Odisea
Teatro de Los Andes, based in Bolivia, offered to stage their "earthquake play" here instead of La Odisea, but were turned down for logistical reasons.
![Arts Festival Review: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
If you are looking for a show that is funny and uplifting, it is unlikely that you would settle on something that has interminable and suicide in its title.
![Don't miss: Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Don't miss: Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
Named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll.
![Arts Festival Review: Beautiful Me](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Beautiful Me
The stage is dark with just the faint gleam of drum kit, sita, cello, violin and four seated musicians.
![Fringe Festival Review: The Turn of the Screw](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Fringe Festival Review: The Turn of the Screw
When the Basement theatre is packed out at 10pm on a Monday night for a local production based on a 19th century novella by Henry James, I think it is safe to say the Auckland Fringe Festival and the Auckland Arts Festival are going off.
![Fringe Festival Review: Drowning in Veronica Lake](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Fringe Festival Review: Drowning in Veronica Lake
Boldly and cleverly, this Flaxworks solo show is built upon one solitary, striking symbol of celebrity.