EDGE #331: Gibbs Sculpture Park #1 Guardian Favourite, Starbucks No Match for NZ’s Domestic Coffee Culture, Lucy Tupu And Max Gimblett Collaborate + Guardian, The Vancouver Sun, New Zealand Newsletter

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News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 12 September 2018 | #331 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Berlin), Carla Hofler, Henrike Forschler (Auckland). See all stories and a 14,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2018 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. Visual Arts | Guardian (The) 06 September 2018 Gibbs Sculpture Park #1 Guardian Favourite “We didn’t think anything manmade could compete with the grandeur of New Zealand’s natural beauty. Then we went to Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park, near Auckland,” Guardian reader Moira writes for a photo gallery special in the newspaper, which celebrates the… Business | Business Chief 06 September 2018 Air New Zealand Australasia’s Leading Airline Air New Zealand has been named the Leading Airline in Australasia for the 10th consecutive year at the 25th annual World Travel Awards for the Asia and… Business | NZ Newsletter 10 September 2018 Kiwi Leadership Network USA Launch & Leadership Speaker Evening Save the date for the Kiwi Leadership Network USA’s official launch event on November 10, 2018 at 6pm at the… Business | Fortune 12 September 2018 Starbucks No Match for NZ’s Domestic Coffee Culture Starbucks’ partner of 20 years in New Zealand is hanging up its apron. Restaurant Brands New Zealand Ltd. is letting its licensing deal… Visual Arts | NZ Newsletter 11 September 2018 Lucy Tupu And Max Gimblett Collaborate To Create Beauty At Your Feet “With her Polynesian heritage and love for all things bright and bold, coupled with Max’s… Visual Arts | NZ Newsletter 11 September 2018 Natasha Wright to Open First Solo Show New Zealand artist Natasha Wright is opening her first solo show on September 19th in New York. Her work “combines figuration and abstraction from a feminine perspective.””My… Politics and Economics | ArtsHub 11 September 2018 Jacinda Ardern On Universally Accessible Arts New Zealand’s Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern says art should be for the many, not the few. The opinion piece features… Visual Arts | Financial Times 07 September 2018 Artist Tom White Collaborates With AI Tom White, artist and computational design lecturer at Victoria University’s School of Design, is taking part in a group exhibition in Dehli, India, which features works created entirely… Music | NME 07 September 2018 Rising Star Robinson Hits Huge Streaming Figures Young New Zealand singer-songwriter who goes by just her surname, Robinson, has had a lot to get excited about recently, NME reports. Her latest tune… Music | Vancouver Sun (The) 08 September 2018 Superorganism Adapts to Remixes and Popularity The press has embraced Superorganism not just for its cuddly psychedelia, but also for its story – eight members, including a fresh-out-of-high-school… Rugby | France 24 10 September 2018 All Blacks Win Over Pumas in Nelson Coach Steve Hansen gave his rearranged All Blacks a pass mark after their 46-24 victory over a much-improved Argentinian side in Nelson, but conceded they weren’t as good as they should have… Sport General | Peterborough Telegraph 10 September 2018 Double Win for Equestrians Tim and Jonelle Price Just four months after his wife Jonelle took top honours in the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials, fellow New Zealander Tim Price, 39, captured… Sport General | Stuff 11 September 2018 Javelin Thrower Holly Jones off to Special Olympics Paeroa woman Holly Jones has being selected to represent New Zealand at the Special Olympics World Games, to be held in Abu Dhabi in… Fashion | Fashion United 07 September 2018 NZ Fashion Week Showcases Established & Emerging Designers “New Zealand Fashion Week has come to a close and the event, which ran from August 27 to September 2, offered a showcase of… New Zealand | South China Morning Post 08 September 2018 Seek Out Auckland’s Top Shopping Destinations “New Zealand’s biggest city is booming, and so are its designer fashion and beauty boutiques – some of them destinations in themselves,” according to… New Zealand | Telegraph (The) 09 September 2018 Exploring the Jurassic Park-Like Whanganui River “Water is an oft-used metaphor for virtually everything: time, sex, death. But to New Zealanders it’s much more elemental – a connection forged when… Writers | Globe and Mail (The) 06 September 2018 Heather Morris on the Books That Have Inspired Her At first, New-Zealand-born Heather Morris hadn’t intended on writing a novel.When Morris first struck up a friendship with an elderly man named… Obituaries | Irish Times (The) 05 September 2018 Appreciating the Life and Music of Brent Parker “Brent Parker, who died aged 84 [in December last year], was a New Zealand-born composer-pianist and lecturer in pianoforte at the DIT Conservatory of Music… Taste | New Zealand Listener 09 September 2018 Kai’s Chef Jessica Murphy Makes Bottura Book In a recent New Zealand Listener article, Lauraine Jacobs writes about world famous chef Massimo Bottura and his new cookbook, Bread is Gold: Extraordinary Meals… Motorsports | getSurrey 14 September 2013 5 Years Ago – 50th Birthday for Late Motorsport Legend This week marks the 50th anniversary for the legendary racing team established by New Zealand motorsport legend Bruce McLaren and which bore his name. The good folk of Woking… Design | The West Australian 15 September 2008 10 Years Ago – Essence of Jade Dunedin jeweller Jamie Fergus took a trip to the largest jade-deposit in the southern hemisphere, to Cowell in South Australia, after which he taught jewellery students in Adelaide how to carve the mine’s… Fashion | The Age 11 September 2003 15 Years Ago – Big Ups for “Small but Perfectly Formed” NZ Fashion Week The Age calls L’Oreal NZ Fashion Week a thorn in the side of its Australian counterparts, warning that its “peculiarly talented protagonists” are in danger…