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Te Hīkoi Toi: The wonderful world of collections


Mīharo Wonder at the National Library of New Zealand runs until October.
Alexander Turnbull Library Chief Librarian Chris Szekely​ says the collection holds items “too many millions to count”. Alone, there are 5 million photographs and 140,000 drawings, paintings and prints. Plus many delightful oddities - this week I marvelled at buttons created by French prisoners on St Helena two centuries ago.
Superb work has been done providing access to the collections online, yet exhibitions provide the physical frisson of carefully selected, positioned and explained objects in space. Online a search on ‘buttons’ brings up a boggling 3374 items.
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Gunda: Why a black-and-white documentary about a pig is 2021's best movie so far


Gunda, which has arrived with little fanfare and is playing in a lamentably small number of cinemas, is simply the most astonishing, moving, engrossing and beautiful film I ve seen in months. And it achieves it without music, without dialogue, without human characters and without any precedent I know of.
The film takes place over about six months. It is laid out in a series of mostly very-nearly still shots, in luminous black-and-white, with the camera almost always close to the ground, in the domain and the eyeline of one admirably stoic sow, whose name, in the Scandinavian languages, means “woman warrior”. ....

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