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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

October 6-12 2007 Vol 210 No 3517

Arts & Music

  • Culture King of the hill by John Coley
    Rodney Wilson has just retired from the Auckland War Memorial Museum, concluding a long career of helming major cultural institutions. But he won’t be idle.

  • Poetry Sprig Nelson, 1870 by Gregory O'Brien
    Here, according to this plaque the egg was laid only a grubber or chipkick from the exact centre...

  • Art Cup half empty by Andrew Paul Wood
    ANTARCTIC ARTIST INTERVENTION, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, until November 25.

  • Film Abandonment issues by Helene Wong
    THE ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL: Auckland, October 3-17. Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Nelson, Napier and Hamilton to follow. Details at [[www.italianfilmfestival.co.nz]]

  • DVDs Midnight mass by Philip Matthews
    EL TOPO (Abkco).
    THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER VOLUME ONE (Fantoma). and more...

  • Classical The long goodbye by Rod Biss
    The Kungsbacka PianoTrio embody all that is vital in chamber music; they bring it to life with their thrilling unity...


Books

  • Books Bird of ill omen by Nicholas Reid
    THE TOTEM HOLE, by Paul Shannon (Penguin, $35).

  • Books Know your enemies by Elspeth Sandys
    WHEN WE WERE ROMANS, by Matthew Kneale (Picador, $38).