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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?
BurmeseYou don’t come across many Burmese eateries in this country. In fact, until Moe Palae’ opened late last year, Tāmaki Makaurau had spent eight years without a single representation of the ...
South IndianEating here sparks plenty of joy, and for plenty of reasons. It’s the orange-topped tables, and the big bold “Kia Ora” sign which greets you at the front door. It’s the chock-a-block table ...
UyghurHere, find bowls of Lanzhou-style beef ramen; immense plates of very, very long house-made noodles strewn with capsicum, black fungus and hunks of lamb; and juicy spiked meat swept with cumin ...
Abigail Dell'Avo sits down with Matariki Bennett to discuss her debut poetry collection.
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?