By the numbers

The Arts Foundation Laureate Awards are announced tonight. For stay-at-homes we'll publish who the visual arts laureate is at 8pm. In the meantime, we can tell you that this person helps redress the balance in the battle between Elam and Ilam, the country’s two main art schools. Of the current Laureates who attended art school, three went to Auckland University’s Elam and, until tonight, only two to Ilam, the University of Canterbury’s school. The Walters Prize swings the the other way with the prize winner score sitting at Elam one to Ilam’s three. The other art schools in the country must be figuring they need to get some recognition from these prestigious affairs quick smart.