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Submissions to the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill, the third and final Bill to deal with the Auckland governance transition, close on February 12.
Collecting by definition is to gather together, to assemble and to accumulate. This month at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, those curious private fixations are being exposed.
Debut director James Napier-Robertson talks about filming and financing his thriller, I'm Not Harry Jenson.
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The s.92A Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act and the New Zealand Film Commission’s documentary funding criteria, are some of the topics that will be covered at the Documentary Edge Forum.
Columns
Julian Dashper’s work asks all sorts of great questions about art history, the hierarchy of different media and their relation to how we live with art in our daily lives.
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Upcoming Events
- 12 Feb 2010 - 21 Feb 2010
- A slideshow of my pop surrealist / lowbrow tiki art. All works here are oil on canvas or linen.
