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Jul 28, 2025 Society . Every year when we present the results of Auckland’s high schools, we are forced to ask ourselves the ...
Abstract works can ask that our shared reality of objects and legible forms be suspended for what is usually a nocturnal ...
Which begs the (endlessly repeated) question — why art? Why bother looking at locally curated shows of local artists when our ...
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I, Writer

Writing isn’t just words and grammar — it’s original thought. Learning to spell builds intuition; learning structure builds clarity; crafting an essay hones precision. AI depends on replicable rules, ...
The most radical constructivists — popular with baby boomer hippies in the 1960s — argue there’s no objective knowledge ...
Indian food is not just curry. Still, we shouldn’t forget to acknowledge the art of curry-making and when it’s done ...
Golriz Ghahraman on the trauma and online attacks that broke her down, the mistakes she made, and the work she’s done — ...
Currently she has two works in Photosynthesisers: Women and the Lens, a group exhibition that has just opened at Te Uru in ...
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 power plays, as the ...
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A slice of freedom

The American writer Freddie deBoer wrote in a 2022 newsletter that some of the most irritating posturing about freedom of speech online comes from leftists who are “absolutely certain about everything ...
As our virtual heart tour continues, we gather around a bisected heart, watching valves open and close. The teacher prompts us to trace the blood flow — “oxygenated or deoxygenated?” he asks.