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Novelist Chloe Lane talks to artist Nicola Farquhar about guts and hats, and her fondness for ruining things.
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Novelist Chloe Lane talks to artist Nicola Farquhar about guts and hats, and her fondness for ruining things.
Mark Amery shares words and images with Auckland artist Meg Porteous across bubbles, via screens.
Questions are being asked about the judging process for New Zealand’s most prestigious art prize, the Walters Prize.
Today, the best art is coming not from our museums or galleries, but from bedrooms, garages and kitchen tables.
Nirin, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, remained open in March while many other exhibitions closed. Now one of Australasia’s most important art events is going online.
Writer Samuel Te Kani tracks the issues and digs into the complications below the surface of the erasures of a queer NZ art history.
Go on, imagine your lockdown without art. Just try.
'It seems like someone else’s dream of my past.' For Emma Neale, the painting ‘Wanderlust’ by Dunedin artist Sharon Singer stirs memories of her childhood.
New Zealand's museums and galleries are still open, despite similar spaces closing in cities across the world.
Imogen Taylor's sumptuous exhibition Sapphic Fragments is informed by art historical understandings of queer pleasure, and in particular, women’s love for women.
An extract from West Coast photographer Julia Johnston’s upcoming book Coast Roaders with an introduction by her for Spinoff readers.
Visiting the Audio Foundation and the Michael Lett Gallery, both just off Auckland’s K' Road, Tulia Thompson finds herself considering the galaxy and what it means to be human.
Former student Anna McAllister recounts her fraught journey through art school.
Yes, it’s still summer and still the season of the road trip. We run down some of the best North Island art stopovers, and the mavericks behind them.
Serena Bentley writes on an illuminating survey in Auckland and Christchurch of the work of a daring modernist artist deserving of wider attention
Florida-based New Zealand writer Chloe Lane talks to Wellington artist Andrew Beck about life among the Trump devotees and swamp manatees of America's strangest state.
Laurie Anderson on the power of art, the complexity of language, Buddhism and Burroughs, and their shared love of terriers.
