Why do museum and gallery directors give space to rubbish masquerading as art? Because it suits the establishment
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Why everyone should watch The Wire. Really.
I know there are few things more insufferable than hearing about a person's favourite television show, but you really, really, really need to watch The Wire
Read MoreWaiting for something to happen
What are you meant to do when you've ticked off your to-do list and the baby still hasn't arrived? Make up stuff to do.
Read MoreIn praise of Steve Crow?
Steve Crow, Aotearoa's porn king, isn't necessarily the sort of free speech hero we might want to celebrate. But his fight with the Auckland City Council is one we all should support
Read MoreArt's not easy
For an insight into the theorising and scientific nous that goes into fine art, head to Te Papa's Impressionist exhibition
Read MoreGood golly
Why is it okay to buy a golliwog for your child's toy chest, but not okay to use the word as an insult?
Read MoreCultural exports: Great return on investment in tough times
British film is reaping the glittering harvest of state-funded arts – and NZ politicians should be paying attention
Read MoreDistinguishing the noise from the melody
Alex Ross has written a useful and user-friendly history of 20th century music—from an American point of view
Read MoreThe scent of the show
Novelist Kelly Ana Morey searches for the classic battered hot dog at the Warkworth A & P Show and recalls her pony eventing past. Photographs by Kelly Ana Morey.
Read MoreEight bouquets and one brickbat
Keith Ovenden's cultural highlights of 2008
Read MoreDon Quixote and mommies who drink
Don Quixote is a delight; Mommies who drink; I want a house like she's got
Read MoreRestless, energetic, and still learning
Under-appreciated here in New Zealand, 75-year-old sculptor Tony Stones is continuing to create ambitious bronze works in England and China
Read MoreSo far away and so smug
How can we experience art properly if we don't see it firsthand? And what effect does this have on our insular national arts culture?
Read MoreA world of appalling social alternatives
Superb production of Jenůfa allows us to walk into a world we have, thankfully, lost
Read MoreFiona Hall is no enigma
Australian artist Fiona Hall, now showing at Wellington's City Gallery, fritters her considerable talents on market-driven conceptual art
Read MoreGiving up your day job
I'll have what he's having
Read MoreOf television hosts and plastic ponies
A plea to Sainsbury; how the financial crisis will affect the wine market; Palin's hair secrets; My Little Pony turns 25; and more
Read MoreThe Random Six
Eleanor's take on what's fun in web-side culture news right now. Um, it's a broad definition of culture, okay?
Read MoreDavid Sedaris is a genius
Satirist David Sedaris skewers himself again in latest collection
Read MoreScience funding fails to share building's vision
The cutting-edge Academy of Arts and Sciences that opens in San Francisco this weekend is at odds with America's slack approach to science these days. I visited the amazing building in March.
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