The recent election concluded this month has called on us all to think about our country not only on voting day but beyond. What future do we want for this great country? Can we sustainably pay our own way in the world so that all New Zealanders and their families can succeed? Will we be able to look after our young, our workers and businesses wanting a fair deal, and those older of us who want to retire with dignity, in good health and with security? .

Pablo Picasso once remarked that the purpose of art is to wash the dust of daily life off our souls. Art is the signature of civilizations. What a society deems important is enshrined in its art. Its aim is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Drawing on his keen interest in the ambigui.

You Want To Migrate? Filipino-Kiwis who are in New Zealand today constitute a new but growing addition to the ethnic profile and fabric of society. Their community population concentrations are mostly found in the urbanized major cities of Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and their surrounding suburbs and outer areas.

But is art another viable and equally lucrative investment option for Kiwis and can it be flipped like a house? There is much written and there is also much hype about the cost of fine art one not necessarily confined to works of just old masters , which is gathering momentum. Demand for it has increased, and so have prices. The law of supply and demand configures it as an second attractive alternative.