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Saturday 4 April 2015
Rhythm in his heart and soul
Many concertgoers are familiar with the rhythmically charged music of John Psathas, most recently sampled when the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra presented his View from Olympus with Dame Evelyn Glennie last year.Rhythm is in...
T.J. McNamara: Emotions run high in wild west
This is a week of veteran artists and new galleries. The most vigorous exhibition is Land Cadence by John Madden, who has devoted his painting life to wrestling to convey the steep hills of the west coast of the Waitakeres, particularly...
Patricia Greig: If you listen to the land, it will speak to you
From a clutter of paint tubes covered with ancient clay dust and shimmers of oils, works rise like mirages at all angles from the depths of John Madden's studio.A lifelong reverence for the land is obvious in his work.His expression...
9/11 opera envisages what happened inside the towers
We all remember where we were on 9/11. The planes that flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre blew a hole in the heart of the world. That day, it seemed as if optimism, decency, empathy and love were confronted and defeated...
Take a deep breath
It opens with a baby's first cry and the inhalation of a first breath, and ends 35 seconds later with the final exhalation of a human being and another cry. Samuel Beckett's Breath , surely the shortest play in existence, has never...
Madonna wages war on Instagram over nude post
Madonna has launched an attack on photo-sharing site Instagram over its rules on nudity after it removed an image of her posing topless.The 56-year-old responded to the censorship by posting a fully nude photo of herself to her...
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