Friday, 28 May 2021, 6:19 am | NZ Portrait Gallery Bodie Friend from Waikato been announced the winner of the 2021 Kiingi Tuheitia
Portraiture Award and a $20,000 cash prize. Bodie’s work “ Nana” , a photograph
depicting his great-uncle Pat Kingi, or as he’s more affectionately known as, Nana . More
Wednesday, 18 November 2020, 5:51 am | NZ Portrait Gallery Curator, writer, arts collector and marketer Brian Wood has been appointed Acting
Director of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. Brian Wood Wood
will replace current Director of the NZ Portrait Gallery Jaenine Parkinson for a . More
Monday, 18 June 2018, 2:35 pm | NZ Portrait Gallery
Massey University graduate, Robert Laking, has been named as the recipient of the
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Artist Mika X and linked entities were awarded $100,000 by Creative NZ when facing police investigation, charges for aiding rich-lister
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Creative NZ says it was unaware Mika X was under investigation and facing charges when it granted him and his associated entities government funding. Photo / Michael Craig
Creative NZ says it was unaware Mika X was under investigation and facing charges when it granted him and his associated entities government funding. Photo / Michael Craig
While on bail and accused of imprisonable crimes, Mika X and organisations linked to him were granted thousands of dollars from the government s national arts and development entity.
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What’s gone wrong for the capital city? How much time do you have? Danyl McLauchlan goes hunting for solutions to the city’s lengthening list of problems.
“The reality is even Wellington is dying and we don’t know how to turn it around.” – John Key in 2013.
“I should have said ‘under sustained pressure’, which would have been a better terminology. I’m not suggesting that it’s dying in the slightest.” – John Key a few days later.
Wellington is not quite dead. In fact, the city is expected to keep growing (making its already dire accommodation crisis even worse). But “under sustained pressure” feels downright prophetic given that geysers of water and sewerage have become routine features of the Wellington skyline.