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Lowdown #52: Marginalisation and Misunderstandings

Dominic Hoey highlights “What do you mean?” in this week’s Lowdown of arts and media.
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Dominic Hoey
Ron Te Kawa and Janet Bayly at Mahara Gallery Waikanae
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Lowdown #51: The roar of rising change

Mark Amery rounds up the supreme challengers and creators in Aotearoa
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Mark Amery
Image from Pentakis by Jon Baxter for Tūrama Festival Auckland
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The complete Lowdown on innovation during Matariki Puanga

Mark Amery scans Aotearoa to bring you in on what’s going on
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Mark Amery
Phoebe Morris's illustration for google
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Still fight the fight!*

Mark Amery questions whether times have changed (or not) in Lowdown #49
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Mark Amery
The Imperial Crown
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Clarions and Gongs

Kate Powell counts the coins, salves the wounds and rings the gongs in this week’s Lowdown #48
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Kate Powell
Fiona Pardington. Image: Meek Zuiderwyk (via Starkwhite Gallery)
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Cat among the Pigeons?

Hot conversations and media comment this week followed by Kate Powell for Lowdown #47
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Kate Powell
A mural of Jacinda Ardern following the Christchurch mosque attacks in Melbourne, Australia.
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Breaking Bad!

Kate Powell rounds up breaking stories in the arts media in Lowdown #46
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Kate Powell
quote by Jack Kerouac
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The State of the Music Nation

Guest writer Graham Reid gives us an insider’s guide to NZ Music Month for Lowdown #45.
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Graham Reid
Dots for Love and Peace. 2009 installation by Yayoi Kusama at City Gallery Wellington. Courtesy of the artist and City gallery Wellington
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Think Again!

Lowdown #44: Leadership exits and entrances, bad treatment and chances to think again - Kate Powell delivers this week's arts media news.
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Kate Powell
Howard Jacobson with his Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2013. Image credit: Alamy Stock Photo, ID:D8EAY1
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Who wants a prize pig?

Here's Mark Amery with a real grunty prize for Lowdown #43.
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Mark Amery