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

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

An onlooker — that’s me — can sense the freedom. The students navigate the landscape of the strip without batting an eyelid, ...

Abstract works can ask that our shared reality of objects and legible forms be suspended for what is usually a nocturnal ...

South Indian ...

Indian food is not just curry. Still, we shouldn’t forget to acknowledge the art of curry-making and when it’s done ...

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

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?

In fact, until Moe Palae’ opened late last year, Tāmaki Makaurau had spent eight years without a single representation of the ...

Here, find bowls of Lanzhou-style beef ramen; immense plates of very, very long house-made noodles strewn with capsicum, ...

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

Nepali/Indian ...