Getty Museum continues its inspiring digital series that you can access while you’re right here in New Zealand. Take a look at their latest offerings.
Dave McNaughton's When I Paint My Masterpiece playlist
Two gorgeous films and a clunker
We’re in awards season. It’s a stretched out awards season, but time has become meaningless lately, what with covid, vaccination roll-outs, pay freezes for three years, and the ordinary hum-drum of too much work and too little time to do it in. Speaking of time, why not spend two or three hours in the cinema, alone or with loved ones, and lose yourself in another world?
Book review: Civilisations by Laurent Binet — what if the Incas had conquered Europe?
Aotearoa art: explore the best NZ has to offer in April 2021
Stock your bookshelf with crime novels
Constitution
Five must-listen podcasts
Getty inspired: March 2021 edition
Waiheke Jazz Festival 2021: special JANZ offer for Good Friday Groove
The best books of 2021: The Times' predictions
Getty inspired: February 2021 edition
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
While the world of scurvy, seasickness, and sailing the high seas with a limb having been blasted off by a cannonball is clearly a far cry from the experience of many, there is something in these stoic calls to endurance that is resonating, especially now during the world’s long voyage to pandemic freedom.
The Dig, The Dry, and Bridgerton
JANZ Christmas Music List
Guest collaborators, led by John Quigley, our music coach, have created the 2020 JANZ Christmas Music List. Love it or hate it, this mix of Bubble and Bing always hits the airwaves around now.
Remembering John le Carré
Books from the Black Lives Matter reading list
2020 was a big year for the Black Lives Matter movement — a year of tragedy, but also a year of global recognition and momentum. In June, a number of reading lists started circulating to educate those who were new to the movement, or just interested in learning more about black civil rights. The below list is just a small part of the texts available for those interested.
Actually good Christmas movies
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — the time when every streaming service releases what feels like an endless list of holiday films that may or may not be the worst films you’ve ever seen. This year, we’re taking the pain out of your holiday viewing and telling you which ones are actually a gift.




















