This Thursday's culture column in The Post - why we need to embrace the term 'culture' more over 'art' stuff.co.nz/entertainment/…

Welcome to April Appreciation: Paul SImon. We avoid hours of hits, the recorded output of Simon/ Garfunkel, hours of middling misses. An hour ranging from the late '50s turning out pop facsimiles through to 2016. You’ll hear from 11 of 14 solo albums. soundcloud.com/paekakariki-fm…

Sydney's jawdropping Sydney Modern and thinking about senses of scale NZ to Oz - this week's The Post culture column: thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

And in all the excitement of The Post new web thingy I neglected to post Te Hikoi Toi on excellent new McLeavey Gallery show of young turks thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

If we’re not careful arts criticism will die with aging Pakeha men like me. Discuss! thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

"...a grainy black and white video plays of a couple’s mouths, tongues in active slippery embrace. On the other side of the wall, inside, a video plays of the woman’s face, grimacing as she responds to being hit by the man." thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

I’ve had a dream job since I started in radio as a student. Then in 2020 had one of those crazy lockdown dreams of a podcast 2hander with a non pale male copresenter in Alkd. RNZ somehow just magicked it all up without me asking rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Today in The Post we feature the last Te Hikoi Toi by the beautiful soulful writer Rangimarie Sophie Jolley. Thank you Sophie for bringing such heart to toi art in Te Whanganui a Tara. This is a beautiful last piece thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

By way of a send off to Bartley & Company Art here is a tribute to Wellington art dealers past. Today's culture column thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

According to Global Liveability Index, Te Whanganui-a-Tara has often ranked as 1 of the world’s most liveable cities. Yet last year it tumbled from fourth to 46th, the biggest fall on the table. Artists on living here in The Post thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

A free newspaper created with Pōneke housing tenants going out to libraries, galleries, tenants & all around, distributed by paid tenants: Immensely proud of the mahi. Thanks Wellington City Council & COCA Massey University Join us 2pm Sat 24 June Enjoy Gallery, for a hui facebook.com/events/2324075…

Nga mihi thrilled to intro new Te Hīkoi Toi writer The Post Sinead Overbye (also Kaupapa Māori Editor Pantograph Punch on this year's remarkable visual arts programme Kia Mau Festival thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

In today's Te Hikoi Toi The Post - from the carte de visite to the smartphone - the role of technology in intimate portraiture. Through Shaded Glass Te Papa , Sione Monu CityGalleryWellington & Euan Macleod with Geoff Dixon NZ Portrait Gallery thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

What if we could go back to before we thought we couldn't draw? beautiful writing from artist Sian Torrington in this week's culture column The Post thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

Last culture column as contributing arts editor in The Post today. Some final thoughts (though don't get me started on the violence of being silenced by name suppression for years, or the absence of arts strategy and policy still...) thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

In today's Te Hikoi Toi (my last as contributing arts editor at The Post) a return of the wonderful Arihia Latham-Coates (about to publish a book!) on Mana Moana in Poneke. thepost.co.nz/a/culture/3500…

In a week in which the arts scene was rocked by shocking headlines, a new report finds media coverage of culture is "patchy and sparse." Are the arts are just a 'nice to have' for our media now - and why does Mark Amery fear for cultural criticism itself? rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

🚨 ANNOUNCING: Culture 101 🚨 Our new arts and culture programme launches Sunday 20 August on RNZ National, with co-presenters and producers Perlina Lau and Mark Amery. Tune in every Sunday from midday-4pm. Stories will also be available as podcasts.📻🎙️

The perspectives of Creative New Zealand and arts media on taking a pause on having a pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024 have rather dramatically differed. I spoke to CNZ's Gretchen La Roche & danemitchell on rnz rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Do my bad feelings about so many things politically about Israel risk cancelling Israeli culture? & what about Ye? Interesting chat with a visiting NYC rapper Kosher Dillz rnz.co.nz/national/progr…