Engineers of beauty: Ioana Gordon-Smith responds to We Are Not Your Dusky Maidens!
Arts writer Ioana Gordon-Smith (New Zealand, Sāmoa) lives in Porirua and currently works as Lead Curator at Pātaka Art+Museum. Here, Ioana responds to the legacy of the trope of the Dusky Maiden as well as Te Papa’s short films from We Are Not Your Dusky Maidens! The illusion of theseRead more
2026-01-28


