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John Pulu | Presenter/ Reporter/Director A new documentary premiering at the New Zealand International Film Festival next month tells the story of pioneering Pacific musician Fonotī Pati Umaga, whose life changed dramatically in 2005 when a fall left him tetraplegic. After years of hardship, he found renewed purpose and healing in places he never expected.

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Joyce Kozloff, the renowned Pattern and Decoration artist and founder of the feminist magazine Heresies (1977–93), has revealed herself to be a founding member of the feminist action group Guerrilla Girls. She made the disclosure in an interview published July 22 in Art Journal Open . The Guerrilla Girls collective was formed in 1984 in response to the exhibition “International Survey of Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which included the work of 169 artists, fewer than 10 percent of whom were women. Using the tagline “the conscious of the art world,” the Guerrilla Girls’s anonymous members embarked on a poster campaign targeting institutions and figures in the art world whom they felt were responsible for the exclusion of women and non-white artists from mainstream exhibitions and publications. “We decided to call ourselves the Guerrilla Girls, wear fishnet hose and short skirts, call out the worst misogynists in the art ...

An episode of the BBC One documentary series Fake or Fortune? that aired on July 23 confirmed that a previously unattributed artwork was in fact painted by the 18th century Scottish artist Katherine Read. The painting belongs to Mary-Louise Wedderburn, a retired accountant who inherited it from her uncle 20 years ago. Wedderburn presented the gold-framed painting—a portrait of a young Indian woman with a languid expression, wearing several strands of pearl necklaces and a large emerald pendant—wrapped in a sleeping bag. According to the BBC, their research team wasn’t going in complete cold: Wedderburn had an inkling that it could be by Read, who was a distant relative. The painting is estimated to be worth approximately $130,000. Read was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1723. She traveled with a niece to India in the mid-1770s, and died en route back to England the following year. During the 18th century, she was well-known for oil and pastel portraits, o...

Ottawa wants Canadian drones to fight faster than Canadian bureaucracy usually allows. The big picture: The federal government launched the Defence Drone Initiative (DDI) today, a fast-track program to get Canadian-made uncrewed and autonomous systems from workshop to battlefield — and into the hands of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). Why it matters: Drones have rewritten the rules of modern conflict. Ottawa is betting that speed — not just capability — will decide who keeps pace. Minister of National Defence David McGuinty put it bluntly: the future belongs to those who “innovate and adapt the fastest.” How it works: The Department of National Defence and the Defence Investment Agency (DIA) will jointly run the program, creating a faster pipeline from concept to testing to production — assuming the tech meets defence requirements. Target audience: everyone from scrappy startups to established primes. What they...

Could Leonardo da Vinci, alongside imagery of visitors strolling through art exhibitions, become the face of future euro banknotes? In a first, Europeans can now help decide how they want to pay for their Belgian chocolate and French cheese: with bills printed in designs depicting either “European culture” or “Rivers and birds,” announced the European Central Bank (ECB) today. Not too shabby. The bank has revealed 10 shortlisted finalists of an international competition for the eurozone’s new banknote designs, and invited the public to share their two cents about it in a survey here , open until September 21, 2026. This is the first time the euro will get a full makeover since it was issued in 2002. Among the design proposals, the arts and culture category features figures such as opera star Maria Callas on the 5-euro bill, Ludwig van Beethoven on 10-euro notes, and Leonardo on the 100-euro bill. On the reverse side of the latter note, designe...