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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

March 4-10 2006 Vol 202 No 3434

Arts & Music

  • Culture Batwings by Andrew Paul Wood
    The dark arts of Jason Greig.

  • Art Primordial soup by David Eggleton
    The art of Rohan Wealleans takes us back to the beginning of the world.

  • DVDs Life of Python by Chris Knox
    Including At Last the 1948 Show & Do Not Adjust Your Set.

  • Film The architecture of film by Brent Lewis
    THE HOLY SINNER, NZ International Arts Festival, Wellington, March 10-13.

  • Film Noah’s art by Philip Matthews
    Truth and fiction in a brilliant low-budget comedy about divorce.

  • Film The rise and fall of Kenny Boy by Helene Wong
    ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM, directed by Alex Gibney.
    IN SEARCH OF MOZART, directed by Phil Grabsky.

  • Music Under the rain by Nick Bollinger
    The New Zealand origins and Christian concerns of Over the Rhine.

  • Music Radio Ethiopia by Jim Pinckney
    Sometimes you have to be patient.

  • Theatre Coastal beauty by Natasha Hay
    Since Wheeler’s Luck debuted at Wellington’s Bats Theatre two years ago, the plucky little two-hander has become an arts festival darling.


Books

  • Triumph of the weird by David Larsen
    Can we all learn how to breed scientists?

  • Write to choose by Emily Braunstein
    To edit a collection of anything is a delicate undertaking.

  • Bloody Aztecs by Tessa Laird
    If I hadn’t already read City Terrace Field Manual, a book of poetry by Sesshu Foster, I might not have bought Atomik Aztex.