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

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

Abigail Dell'Avo sits down with Matariki Bennett to discuss her debut poetry collection.

Golriz Ghahraman on the trauma and online attacks that broke her down, the mistakes she made, and the work she’s done — professional and therapeutic — to build herself back up.

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

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

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 ...

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?

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

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

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