Walk on the NZ Flag and It's 'art'

Try that with a Pride Flag and It's a 'hate crime'"

May 27, 2025

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An art gallery in Nelson is proudly displaying a piece that invites you to walk all over the New Zealand flag. That’s right – "Please Walk On Me" is boldly stencilled onto the national symbol, lying beneath a symbolic flax tripod in Diane Prince’s reworked 1995 piece Flagging the Future. And somehow, this is all okay in the name of “art”.

Walk on the NZ Flag and It's 'art'

Try that with a Pride Flag and It's a 'hate crime'"

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