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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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 — ...