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 ...

South Indian ...

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

Jul 28, 2025 Society Every year when we present the results of Auckland’s high schools, we are forced to ask ourselves the same question: what truly constitutes a ‘good school’? Is its excellence ...

Efficiency. Performance. Perfection. These sound like specs for a high-performance car, not the aspirations of a young writer. Yet in Auckland’s classrooms, they’re increasingly held up as the ...

Whether abstract painting is ‘citational’ — say, if it points to canon, if it has painterly forebears — does not help to determine its quality or value. Rather, the figuration itself, the bursts of ...

Pulse Check Another trip around as many Auckland galleries as possible in a week or so.