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Synthesis, comparison, and clear recaps of what National, Labour, ACT, The Green Party, and Opportunity Party are offering the sector this election.

Plus the rest of the week's arts news.

Much of the impetus for arts access and disability arts has come from the disability and arts communities as well as Arts Access Aotearoa.

No arts specific policy, but lots on offer – a Citizen’s Income, tax reform, an AI framework, tertiary reform and more from the party set to get into parliament for the first time.

The Green Party has a five-page Arts, Culture and Heritage Policy, and creativity and culture as one of its manifesto items. So what are the plans and promises?

But it's not all bad news – recognition for our artists gives reasons to celebrate.

A detailed and concrete walk through all the party’s policies that affect the arts, even beyond the portfolio, and a doubling-down on the Amplify strategy.

The artist and author loves locals who carve out space for women’s stories in all their complexity, messiness and humour.

Three books authored by Filipinos have been published this year. At last count, only 6.7% of published books in Aotearoa were by Asian authors.

Rachel Boyack says her party would stop cuts, protect artists’ copyright, and update the Amplify strategy. Increasing government funding for the arts would be considered 'after'.

The hope to be found in yodelling lesbians, record revenue for APRA AMCOS, two Music Directors stepping down, and more.

Spokesperson Todd Stephenson outlines his party’s policies for the arts.

There's fears that the connective tissue that allows an ecosystem to regenerate is eroding, but the workshop revealed the sector's assets too.

Mark Williams revisits ten years of CIRCUIT’s Artist Cinema Commissions in an excerpt from a beautiful new book.

It's awards season, but are the wheels coming off?

Six political candidates answered complex, multi-pronged questions and fluffy queries in front of a community that is frustrated, and sick of being under-estimated and under-funded in Ōtautahi on Monday.

Across film festivals and biennales, NZ artists are tracing histories of colonialism, asserting Indigenous self-determination and holding power to account, raising questions of transparency that land on our doorstep.

If you’re not searching for prestige and total solitude, and you can’t vanish for long periods of time, there’s plenty of residencies for you.

Plus the week’s news, including City Gallery reopening, new patron passes, and curatorial movements in Wellington.

Angela Bishop reflects on the impact and outcomes of taking eight early-career practitioners to experience the Venice Biennale.

The illustrator and artist didn’t wait for traditional paths, instead he started making work, posting it at 16, finding the people who resonated with it, and tending to that community.

The numbers suggest benefits attributable to the Events Attraction Package outweigh the costs, despite MBIE’s advice to the contrary.

A group armed with OIA documents are asking questions around the legality of staff guidelines at the Venice Biennale, but the documents reveal other shortcomings.