Take Five: Including In the Next Room, Fantastique and Hue & Cry

By Guy Somerset In Take Five

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30th June, 2012
1 First, it was a book: Whatu Kakahu: Maori Cloaks (Te Papa Press, $84.99), one of the Listener’s 100 Best Books of 2011 and an illustrated non-fiction finalist in this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards. Now, with a tweak to the name, it’s an exhibition at Te Papa in Wellington: KAHU ORA: LIVING CLOAKS, curated by the woman responsible for the book, Awhina Tamarapa, and likewise drawing on the museum’s kakahu collection, the largest in the world. The exhibition features the stories behind prestigious cloaks and their owners, plus accounts of ...

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