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Abstract works can ask that our shared reality of objects and legible forms be suspended for what is usually a nocturnal ...
Behind the heavy doors of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on Kitchener St, the battle to crown the next director has begun ...
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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?
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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 ...
There are sauces, and then there is mole — that dense, complex, enigmatic, labour-intensive substance that exists in seemingly infinite variations. It is not so much a condiment as it is a record of ...
The most radical constructivists — popular with baby boomer hippies in the 1960s — argue there’s no objective knowledge ...
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 ...
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