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, ...

Photographer Guy Coombes wears black so he doesn’t reflect any light on his subjects. With thanks to R.M.Williams.

Kneading sovereignty How did bread come to occupy such an immovable and essential place on the Māori plate?

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 ...

In the first few months after my wife and I became home owners, the algorithmic puppeteers at Instagram and YouTube started ...

Whether abstract painting is ‘citational’ — say, if it points to canon, if it has painterly forebears — does not help to determine its quality or value. Rather, the figuration itself, the bursts of ...

The most radical constructivists — popular with baby boomer hippies in the 1960s — argue there’s no objective knowledge anyway. There’s no point in your kids being taught a body of knowledge about ...

The American writer Freddie deBoer wrote in a 2022 newsletter that some of the most irritating posturing about freedom of ...

Jul 11, 2025 People Behind the heavy doors of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on Kitchener St, the battle to crown the next director has begun — a high-stakes tussle of egos, whispered alliances and ...