Life in counterpoint

Life in counterpoint

I like art,” Robert Leonard says, “that plays coun­ter­point with me.” Partly this is the love of con­trasts, of hav­ing two melod­ic lines that play at once, but fit together: […]

New dogs, old tricks

New dogs, old tricks

The south­ern Cali­for­nia of Gia Coppola’s debut fea­ture Palo Alto seems idyll­ic on the sur­face. Long hot sum­mer days, teen­age free­dom and lim­it­less pos­sib­il­ity, but it soon becomes appar­ent that […]

Arts and Sciences

Arts and Sciences

One of the least pro­duct­ive things going on in the cur­rent cul­tur­al con­ver­sa­tion is the idea that the arts and the sci­ences need to be sep­ar­ate. A lot of this […]

Rattle and No Hum

Rattle and No Hum

 Jonath­an Cray­ford Dark Light (Rattle Records) Recor­ded in New York City last year, Dark Light sees nomad­ic New Zea­l­and pian­ist Jonath­an Cray­ford play­ing along­side Ben Street (bass) and Dan Weiss […]

Touchy feely

Touchy feely

I first encountered Seung Yul Oh’s work at Te Papa six years ago. Four Oddooki 2008 pieces were installed in the sculp­ture court on the rooftop. Seung describes these large […]

Abigail’s allegro

Abigail’s allegro

When the lights go up, and the cur­tain lifts, Abi­gail Boyle takes centre stage with full makeup, slicked hair and tutu as a dan­cer in the Roy­al New Zea­l­and Ballet. […]

A stitch in time…

A stitch in time…

As we edge ever closer to pos­it­ive sea­son­al changes, we may wish to shed a few lay­ers of bulky cloth­ing. How­ever, most Wel­ling­to­ni­ans will under­stand that the ele­ments won’t allow […]

Fish, Chips, Beer: The answer

Fish, Chips, Beer: The answer

It star­ted, as these things often do, over beers. At a recent gath­er­ing hos­ted by the Brit­ish High Com­mis­sion­er, I had a dis­cus­sion with Sean Gold­ing, own­er of Golding’s Free […]

Hand in Hand

Hand in Hand

Why does wine go so well with food? Wine is essen­tially an acid, which cleanses the pal­ate. More import­antly, wine provides an array of aromas, fla­vours and tex­tures that, when […]

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