Getting Around the Orthodoxy

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013

There is a possibility that I wrote this entire feature in order to begin with the fact that I was in New York over the summer break. With that in mind, I was in New York over the summer break. One night, I found myself in a SoHo loft, deep in conversation with an architect. In an alignment of Read more...

Candlesticks strike a heated debate

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013

I’ll tell you where to put your candlesticks, young artistsZane PocockIn the most stunning lack of individual style the art world has ever seen, we are currently witnessing a huge proliferation of contemporary New Zealand artists turning their craft towards $1,000 candlesticks. The thought Read more...

Among Criminals

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013

The criminal justice system has a complex set of rules and procedures, which many students experience first-hand every year. Loulou Callister-Baker interviewed several students who have come into contact with Dunedin law enforcement. Nothing in this feature (or Critic generally) should be treated as Read more...

Evidence of a Mid-life Crisis

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013

Loulou Callister-Baker’s flatmate discovered some mysterious boxes in the attic, full of the possessions of a man who clearly experienced a textbook midlife crisis. Impressed by his adherence to Mills & Boon-level stereotypes, she tells the story of the man’s life. Sometime last month, I walked Read more...

Dunedin Gives Birth to Fashion

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013

Writing an entire feature about events that you, the reader, either couldn’t afford to go to or would never be seen at is difficult. Fashion is also difficult, but then again, fashion is a fundamental part of all societies and completely governs the way we interact and progress. Arguably, Read more...

In The Company Of Style

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013

With iD Fashion week recently catwalking by, Critic took the chance to get a further insight into the fashion world. Loulou Callister-Baker ventured out into the city to interview four Dunedin designers who are each at different stages of their careers, from studying at Otago Polytech’s Fashion and Read more...

#Pride #Prejudice #Hashtag @Critic

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 24th February 2013

Where the fuck is the city? I whispered to myself as the airplane landed in a patchwork of green and yellow fields. Were we still in New Zealand? How much more land can there be south of the Bombay hills? Was Kim Jong-un actually the world’s sexiest man? Questions filled my head. While I panicked Read more...

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012

The New York-based, Serbian-born performer Marina Abramović is one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century. Since Abramović’s career began in the 1970s she has continued to use performance art to enthrall, shock, seduce, and explore the possibilities of Read more...

Barbara

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012

[FILM FEST PREVIEW] Barbara is set in the German Democratic Republic, informally known as East Germany, during the 1980s. Barbara (Nina Hoss), a doctor working in Berlin, has been banished to a countryside hospital after she expressed her wish to leave the GDR. In this hospital she works Read more...

Dark Shadows

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012

I remember when Tim Burton brought out the new Alice in Wonderland film a few years ago – the pre-watch excitement, then the gradual slide into mediocrity which climaxed with the final, excruciatingly lame dance sequence. My expectations for Burton’s latest adventure, Dark Shadows, were low. Read more...