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Building Bridges on canvas

Building Bridges on canvas

One of NZ’s most respected Maori artists and pioneer of indigenous art in schools, John Bevan Ford, has died aged 75 from cancer. While tremendously skilled in traditional Maori wood carving, Ford is best perhaps known…

Museum reborn

Museum reborn

A “New Zealand ancestor figure” is among the art on display in the inaugural exhibition at the revamped British Museum.