Māori Artists Feature in Major Oceania Exhibition at The Met Māori and Pasifika artists have taken centre stage at The Metropolitan Museum of Art with the reopening of its Arts of Oceania galleries. More than 650 works from across the Pacific are now on display, continuing the legacy opened by the historic Te Māori exhibition decades ago. A delegation of Māori artists attended the reopening, emphasising that Māori art is not a relic of history but a living tradition carried by carvers, weavers a

Māori Queen launches major investment fund at major summit In a landmark moment for the Māori economy, Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po – the newly instated Māori Queen – today formally unveiled a new multi-million-dollar investment platform, the Kotahitanga Fund, during the inaugural Ōhanga ki te Ao (Economy to the World) summit held at the University of Waikato in Hamilton. The fund – seeded by contributions from several iwi Māori entities – aims to marshal collective Māori capital to su

About half of the world’s 7,000 languages are under threat - and especially its Indigenous languages, which are disappearing at a rate of one a fortnight. Māori media company Te Hiku Media has taken a 21st-century approach to stopping the slide. Here, as CEO Peter-Lucas Jones explains, it built an AI to help transcribe 30 years of Māori-language archival recordings, in which Indigenous elders passed down their priceless knowledge and customs. To create the tool, Te Hiku launched a reading compet