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Bob Dylan at 80

25 May 2021

Opinion: Graham Reid marks Bob Dylan’s’ 80th birthday with a reflection on the legend’s mercurial musical career and the “multitudes” contained within him.
Charlotte Grimshaw's home truths

21 May 2021

Charlotte Grimshaw is an award-winning author of seven novels and two short-story collections. She’s also the daughter of another literary giant, C. K. Stead, and it’s her family life that she reflects on in her powerful memoir The Mirror Book.
Courtney Sina Meredith: writer bursting with talent honoured

19 May 2021

Courtney Sina Meredith is the University of Auckland’s 2021 Young Alumna of the Year. Janet McAllister explains why there’s a lot to love about this writer’s work.
Budget 2021: we need the arts to live, but artists need to earn a living

14 May 2021

Opinion: It seems unlikely the arts will be a priority in the government’s 20 May budget, with housing affordability, climate change and child poverty all urgent issues - but Dr Mark Harvey argues it should be.
Of mermaids, male fears and fantasies

13 May 2021

The allure of medieval mermaids and the changing meaning of the female body over time is the focus of Professor Kim Phillips’ inaugural lecture.
Contemporary recording of composition inspired by ancient tombstone

11 May 2021

A composition inspired by the world’s oldest surviving piece of music has been performed and recorded by Turkish guitarist, Barkin Sertkaya, School of Music.
Paula Morris reflects on landmark book of Asian Kiwi writing

29 April 2021

Associate Professor Paula Morris teaches the Creative Writing Programme at the University of Auckland. In April she unveiled a special work in front of her class. She explains why it was special.
Murray Edmond: Auckland was revolting in the 1960s

29 April 2021

Retired professor and writer Murray Edmond explores the cultural revolt in Auckland in the 1960s in his new book out in May.
Story of Nukutawhiti's voyage: a Ngāpuhi collaboration

29 April 2021

The voyage of famous Polynesian navigator Nukutawhiti from Hawaiki to Aotearoa has been brought to life in a ground-breaking online narrative for schools.
Holding each other afloat, through art

27 April 2021

Nuala Gregory, Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Creative Arts and Industries (CAI), traces her art practice back to experiments with collage as a working-class kid growing up in the conflict zone of west Belfast in the 1970s.
One way to show solidarity in a crisis

16 April 2021

Opinion: Ahead of her Raising the Bar talk on Wednesday, Alys Longley explains why art collaboration across all borders is an essential service during a pandemic.
Professor and expert in Māori architecture elected to Royal Society

15 March 2021

Professor Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu), head of the School of Architecture, is one of 27 researchers to be elected to the Royal Society Te Apārangi this year, and the only one of 455 Fellows to have a background in architecture and art history.

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