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Classical Gas: RNZ's week of feedback, fury and flips
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Classical Gas: RNZ's week of feedback, fury and flips

We go in-depth into the intense battle over Concert FM’s future - and the extraordinarily passionate response that could just save the RNZ station.

Ready for a Flurry of Festivals?
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Ready for a Flurry of Festivals?

The latest Lowdown with Mark Amery with a feature on festivals - highlighting some of the ones to watch at this year’s Pride, and festivals off the beaten track.

The Kids Aren’t Alright
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The Kids Aren’t Alright

Arts educators shine a light on NZ’s “inadequate” support for schools in Mark Amery’s latest arts news Lowdown, which includes a guide to some Kiwi online gems.

Where are the queer art exhibitions?
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Where are the queer art exhibitions?

A startling statistic around LGBTQ+ representation in public galleries in this week’s Lowdown with Mark Amery, along with art news from the spotlight and the wilderness (literally).

Concern over creatives’ earnings and the ‘gig economy’
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Concern over creatives’ earnings and the ‘gig economy’

Mark Amery’s Lowdown is back for 2020, and chock-full with all the major arts stories from over the break, including fresh concerns about the dire state of creative sector incomes.

Why Te Papa’s new CEO appointment is major news
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Why Te Papa’s new CEO appointment is major news

In the final Lowdown of the decade, Mark Amery rounds up the juiciest arts stories from the past week, and brings us the best of those ubiquitous ‘best-of’ lists.

Boomer to the rescue
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Boomer to the rescue

A lycra-clad actor saves the day, a New Zealand film named best-ever by a female director and more in Mark Amery’s latest weekly round-up of unmissable arts news.

Creative NZ funding: who lost out?
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Creative NZ funding: who lost out?

Mark Amery reveals who’s been hit hard in this week’s arts news Lowdown.

Farewell, wahine toa
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Farewell, wahine toa

A New Zealand icon gone too soon, severe flooding at the Venice Biennale and other must-read arts news in this week’s Lowdown by Mark Amery.

Dirt, cat food and clickbait
The Lowdown

Dirt, cat food and clickbait

Mark Amery rounds up the bold and beautiful in arts news from New Zealand and beyond in this week’s Lowdown #71.

Up in Smoke
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Up in Smoke

Queer representation, NZ TV Award noms and the public artwork we almost lost in Mark Amery’s Lowdown #69.

Firecracker of artists and thinkers about to go off
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Firecracker of artists and thinkers about to go off

Mark Amery is fired up about three new formats coming your way in this week’s Lowdown of arts news.