The Lowdown

British artist Martin Creed's neon ‘Whatever’ sign. Photo/The Big Idea
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Creative NZ funding: who lost out?

Mark Amery reveals who’s been hit hard in this week’s arts news Lowdown.
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Nancy Brunning with Jason Te Kare and Rachel House in Hone Kouka’s Waiora at Downstage, 1996. Supplied.
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Farewell, wahine toa

A New Zealand icon gone too soon, severe flooding at the Venice Biennale and other must-read arts news in this week’s Lowdown by Mark Amery.
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Mata Aho Collective with a portion of their monumental, handwoven sculpture, Aka
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Dirt, cat food and clickbait

Mark Amery rounds up the bold and beautiful in arts news from New Zealand and beyond in this week’s Lowdown #71.
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Wild Dogs Under My Skirt. Photo: Matt Grace.
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Who’s stepped down and who’s headed out?

In the Lowdown #70, Kate Powell brings us the latest need-to-know arts news, including Kiwi acts going global, new tech for deaf music-lovers and the country’s coolest little lit fest.
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Dear Nelson by Shannon Novak.
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Up in Smoke

Queer representation, NZ TV Award noms and the public artwork we almost lost in Mark Amery’s Lowdown #69.
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CrossLines: A Culture Lab on Intersectionality presented by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building in Washington, D.C. (May 2016). Photo by Les Talusan.
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Firecracker of artists and thinkers about to go off

Mark Amery is fired up about three new formats coming your way in this week’s Lowdown of arts news.
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‘Vaka A Hina’ by Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine.
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Arts Ministers Take Heed

In this week’s arts news Lowdown, Mark Amery discusses the need for an overhaul of government funding structures and how the sector fared in the local elections.
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Fleur Adcock, by Jemimah Kuhfeld.
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Gains and Pains

In this week’s Lowdown #66 Mark Amery scans both islands and beyond to bring us Aotearoa’s art news.
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Present Tense at Britomart. Image - Bruce Connew
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Rock Out Dudes!

A new survey highlights under-representation of women in the arts, and more funding woes in this week’s Lowdown #65.
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David Green Time and Tide, Dunedin
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Heat is on

Hot topics in Mark Amery’s Lowdown #64 - 'artists in schools' programme lifts off, Luke Willis Thompson puts fire under the art magazine world plus art and our climate emergency.
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