Critic Te Ārohi turns 100 this year. That’s a mad lot of deadlines, words, coffee, and many, many issues.

Otago University’s Special Collections and the Hocken Library are paying tribute to this achievement, and the wealth of issues covered across Critic’s ten decades, with a new exhibition that runs from 28 March through to 30 May.

Special Collections’ exhibition ISSUES! surveys the ever-changing range of words and deeds, issues, and events that Critic magazine has interrogated since 1925, from the ban on playing tennis on Sundays to slumlords in Dunedin through to Women’s Lib and Toitū te Tiriti.

Curators Kirstie Ross and Alexander Ritchie have drawn from the Hocken’s rich collections and worked alongside current Critic staff to select content as well as iconic pieces of Critic office furniture for display.

Watch for further announcements about an associated public events programme.