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In my twenties, I was at a party talking to a guy I didn’t know. Mid-conversation this guy stops and goes, “You have autism, ...
In the first few months after my wife and I became home owners, the algorithmic puppeteers at Instagram and YouTube started ...
Photographer Guy Coombes wears black so he doesn’t reflect any light on his subjects. With thanks to R.M.Williams.
An onlooker — that’s me — can sense the freedom. The students navigate the landscape of the strip without batting an eyelid, ...
Join Coastal Signs in popping the cork on their new Karangahape Road location (312 Karangahape Rd) on Wednesday 13 August at 6PM with a show of paintings from Maggie Friedman and Ammon Ngakuru that ...
Kneading sovereignty How did bread come to occupy such an immovable and essential place on the Māori plate?
Abstract works can ask that our shared reality of objects and legible forms be suspended for what is usually a nocturnal ...
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Which begs the (endlessly repeated) question — why art? Why bother looking at locally curated shows of local artists when our foundational principles are being renegotiated, disassembled, demoralised?
Efficiency. Performance. Perfection. These sound like specs for a high-performance car, not the aspirations of a young writer. Yet in Auckland’s classrooms, they’re increasingly held up as the ...
Hello, Goodbye Abigail Dell'Avo sits down with Matariki Bennett to discuss her debut poetry collection.
Jul 28, 2025 Society Every year when we present the results of Auckland’s high schools, we are forced to ask ourselves the same question: what truly constitutes a ‘good school’? Is its excellence ...