Designed by Paul Smith Curated by Joanne Snrech. Virginie Perdrisot-Cassan and François Dareau (Musée National Picasso–Paris) ...

Reviewed by Malcolm Calder Luke Street at GethsemanePhoto Zeus Martinez Jesus Christ Superstar Lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber GMG Productions, Crossroads Live and Worklight ...

Giordano Bellincampi and Auckland Philharmonia, 2024 Opera in Concert production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in the Auckland Town Hall. Photography by Sav Schulman. The Auckland Philharmonia has ...

Anthony Byrt’s new book “Shane Cotton: Moerewa — Liquid Sleep” is more than a biography of one of the country’s foremost artists. Byrt’s Northland whakapapa links him to that of the artist with his ...

John Daly-Peoples Auckland Philharmonia 2027 Season John Daly-Peoples The Auckland Philharmonia has announced its 2027 Season along with the announcement that it will be Giordano Bellincampi’s 12th ...

The last performance of Mozart’s Requiem I heard was a couple of years ago at the Royal Albert Hall where there were close to two thousand choristers. Sydney Philharmonic Choirs may have had only a ...

Bizet’s 19th century opera Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers), was composed when he was twenty-four, but he had already written half a dozen smaller works by then including one based on the ...

Sited in the middle of the natural rainforest of the Pacific Island of Niue is a physically small but conceptually monumental installation / treatise on global environment concerns, the Hikulagi ...

Writing in the Guardian this week the Australian journalist Rebecca Shaw wrote that, “One thing they don’t tell you is that New Zealanders absolutely love talking about their birds. Every time I’ve ...

“I feel very strongly that where I’m going is where paintings must go.” So wrote Colin McCahon in his final letter to his friend Ron O’Reilly. The two of them had been writing to each other for thirty ...

Jim Allen who last week turned 100 has been developing his artistic practice since the 1950s, and was a pioneer of post-object art in New Zealand in the 1970s. Nearly fifty years ago in 1974 I ...

“Home, Land and Sea”, The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Triple Bill featured three very different works each with a distinctive mood and choreography, all had links to the land with styles ranging from ...