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Megan Dunn

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Megan Dunn is the former co-editor of The Spinoff Art. She is the author of Tinderbox. and Things I Learned at Art School (forthcoming, August 2021.)

(Image: Archi Banal).

A swoon for Julian Sands

Megan Dunn on the breathless, infectious joy of watching A Room With A View.

By Megan Dunn | 29th June, 2023

US writer/filmmaker David Shields is holding a workshop at the Auckland Writers Festival next Saturday. (Photo: supplied; Image: Tina Tiller)

‘Unbelievable nakedness’: Author David Shields’ impossible quest for reality

'I was trying to write and read and teach conventional, realistic, linear fiction. And I was bored out of my mind.'

By Megan Dunn | 21st August, 2022

To Meg and Mog (and Owl), with love

To Meg and Mog (and Owl), with love

In appreciation of Helen Nicoll and Jan Pieńkowski's "violently colourful" collaboration, 50 years after their first book.

By Megan Dunn | 20th August, 2022

Olivia Newton-John in Grease

When I grow up can I look exactly like Olivia Newton-John?

A tribute to a woman I wanted to be.

By Megan Dunn | 9th August, 2022

The Earth’s Children series, lurking in high school libraries since the 80s (Design: Tina Tiller)

Remembering The Valley of Horses, a sex bible for young girls

The sexiest book in the high school library.

By Megan Dunn | 29th December, 2021

The Earth’s Children series, lurking in high school libraries since the 80s (Design: Tina Tiller)

Remembering The Valley of Horses, a sex bible for young girls

The sexiest book in the high school library.

By Megan Dunn | 24th August, 2021

Surrealist Art | He Toi Pohewa gallery view. Photo by Maarten Holl, 2021 | Te Papa

Dark dreams and subconscious desires: Surrealist Art at Te Papa, reviewed

Megan Dunn and her six year old daughter spend an afternoon with the surrealists at Te Papa's blockbuster exhibition.

By Megan Dunn | 20th July, 2021

Detail from The Tree of Life, Kushana Bush, 2020.

Art in the waiting room

There is art at the hospital, even in intensive care – but the price of seeing it is everything.

By Megan Dunn | 10th May, 2020

Takaka: night and day, 1948, by Colin McCahon

A road trip through Colin McCahon’s vision of Aotearoa

Megan Dunn talks to Justin Paton, the "master of accessible art writing".

By Megan Dunn | 11th December, 2019

Jacqueline Fahey, Georgie Pies for Lunch, 1977. (Detail.)

Sex, love and Georgie Pie: a fan letter to Jacqueline Fahey

At Wellington's New Zealand Portrait Gallery for one last week is Jacqueline Fahey's Suburbanites, a survey show showcasing 60 years of the artist's riotous oil paintings. Megan Dunn writes a fan letter, in lieu of a review.

By Megan Dunn | 30th October, 2019