Nigel Benson

New Dunedin Public Art Gallery director Cam McCracken followed his heart and art to move south.

Among the old and the beautiful, the lethal was lurking at the 2012 Antique Fair in the Otago Museum Hutton Theatre yesterday.

An Otago Museum staff member is heading to China to explore new horizons for Dunedin.

Wow. Billy Bragg. But, I defer to reviewer Ian Chapman's more informed opinion. The confetti from the seventh Otago Festival of the Arts is still being swept up this morning.

It's hard to know where to look when talking to Australian puppeteer Asphyxia. The deaf Australian performance artist communicates with hand signs and facial expressions, while her interpreter, Paula Dowse, translates.

At first I thought we had happened upon a secret meeting of some ancient order.

God would not have been happy. Poet Brian Turner gave a spirited and thoroughly entertaining reading at St Paul's Cathedral at lunchtime yesterday.

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery has never seen anything like it. What was meant to be a traditional kapa haka welcome for international Otago Festival of the Arts guests yesterday turned into a multicultural dance party.

Three urns. Containing three people. It must be hell.

A dancework is leading an artwork in Dunedin this week. "Work in Progress" is being constructed at Mint Gallery by artist Anneloes Douglas over festival week.

Amadeus Leopold strides across the room on five-inch stilettos and, with an easy grin, shakes hands.

It is endlessly fascinating what appeals to people.

Oh, Vienna.

Boys will be boys.

Wellington playwright Dave Armstrong has fuzzy memories of his last trip to Dunedin.

Hoyts Lane off the Octagon is being transformed into a sort of time tunnel.

More than 40 years after fleeing her communist homeland, a Dunedin author has been honoured by the people she left behind.