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eralded as a ‘game-changer’, Te Papa Tongarewa’s newly contemporised space – Toi Art – opened in 2018 with a triumphant flourish and a feeling that, finally, the institution will be seen as living up to its promise as New Zealand’s national gallery (having effectively swallowed the erstwhile national art gallery in a merger, way back in the 1990s). It may be all about perceptions, but it’s a breakthrough nonetheless, and nothing could be better than Nike

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