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 ...

Jul 28, 2025 Society . Every year when we present the results of Auckland’s high schools, we are forced to ask ourselves the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...