Installation view of Te Hau Whakatonu, A Series of Never-Ending Beginnings, 5 August 2023 – 11 February 2024, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth. Left to right: Shane Cotton, ...

Earlier this month, after 14 years of keeping arts publishing pumping in Aotearoa, we announced that The Pantograph Punch was going on hiatus. The outpouring of love we have received since our ...

Day 3: “This is Israel’s 9/11,” the Israeli Ambassador to the UN says. The unapologetic anti-Arab sentiment they peddle to accompany this is invoking a lot of post-9/11 memories in us Arabs. I am 12 ...

I would catch an ant, drop it onto the web woven in the corner of the stairs, and watch: how the spider, first startled, hurried to the struggling ant, wrapping it up in its silky cocoon, then sucking ...

Sinead Overbye (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou) is our Kaiwāwāhi Kaupapa Māori - Kaupapa Māori Editor. She is a Libra sun with a Cancer Moon and Aries rising. Her background is in art history, Māori ...

Water, the body, cultural survival and life itself are inherent within Māori beliefs and traditions. This ideology is reflected in the recent development of rivers being granted legal personhood in ...

‘Whetūrangitia’ is a verb used in whaikōrero to describe the transformation of loved ones who have passed away – Ki a rātau kua whetūrangitia, haere, haere, haere – which speaks of those who have left ...

The eight stories in Love and Other Rituals are set across the world. From the crisp pine air of the author’s mountainous home city of Baguio to the dry, hazy streets of Austin, and the howling winds ...

Going out to a club night where pulling a risky look is expected, harassment isn’t tolerated, a genuinely diverse DJ line-up is booked and playing sets of high-energy genre-bending bangers is kinda ...

For context, I am writing this from my place of seeing, which I hope translates to a shared collective sight as well. Na yacaqu o Jahra Wasasala. I am Fijian and Pākehā. Au gone ni Macuata. Na noqu ...

It is this shared love of pukapuka that prompted me and my hoamahi, Alyce Stock, Jill Bowie and Elspeth Moody from Kā Kete Wānaka o Ōtepoti (Dunedin Public Library), to curate an exhibition of ...

Dawn Raids was written by Sāmoan playwright Oscar Kightley in 1997. Oscar was a child during the heart of the Dawn Raids era, having recently been sent to Aotearoa from Sāmoa to live with relatives in ...