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To continue with my theme of bashing National for bashing art, let us now turn to the cuts demanded of that most innofensive of cultural roosters, Radio New Zealand. Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman is a medical doctor by profession (presumably of...

I have a problem with the way Right-ish governments treat the arts. Actually, I have a problem with the Right in general. Not that I’m particularly pro-Labour, you understand (any ideologies I subscribe to are strictly ad hoc), but rather I...

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Oh my Gawd ! WTF? They have gone from drab Thunderbirds in mourning by Zambesi, to a dress by Trelise "explosion in granny's closet" Cooper that I swear I last saw on Dame Edna circa 1988. Perhaps the American historian Robin Winks...

Given that everything that Hollywood has produced since ET is derivative, it strikes me that if you enjoyed the movie Avatar , you will probably enjoy the following novels exploring similar themes – I know I do: The Sparrow ,...

If I have to look at, listen to an artists talk about, or read about another research-based artwork I swear I'll get the dry-heaves.

The Wellington Institute of Technology is delighted to announce that applications are now open for the Rita Angus Artist’s Residency for 2010.   The Residency supports an artist...

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My first 'Fringe Festival' experience since moving to Wellington, in a little gallery off Dixon Street. I got there quite late,I think, as the action was just wrapping up. A video art piece playing... looped street scenes accompanied by...

The boundaries of morality lie at varying degrees of perception. External Immorality will amplify into internal morality and vice versa. The result is either Art, or immorality in reality.

Artist Liam Gerrard 25 has produced a 2.5 metres tall charcoal and acrylic work dubbed the "Face of Evil" and is the portrait of Clayton Weatherston, the convicted murder of his former girlfriend, Sophie Elliott. It is one of 93...

According to Plato art seemed so injurious to the pursuit of truth that it should be banned from the ideal state.  His translators suggest his primary concern was irrationality in art and the relationship of it to knowledge.  How interesting...

How can one find peace? Today I was having a fag at the back porch, sitting in a dark green plastic chair staring at some pea pods strewn on a vine down an old aqua colored garden wagon. And I...