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Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
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Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa
Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Four years ago
Four years ago today, disgruntled stallholder Mohamed Bouazizi's immolation sparked revolution in Tunisia, leading directly to revolutions in other Arab countries.
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Van der Velden's Rotterdam
I've been delving into the University of Canterbury's art collection recently, as it has been made available on the University's web site, and was stoked to come across the two Petrus van der Velden drawings below.
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Time Out
Currently in Sydney installing Bill Culbert's Pacific Flotsam at the National Art School Gallery in Darlinghurst, Exhibitions and Collections Team Leader Sean Duxfield noticed the show being promoted in Time Out.
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To you and your kin, etc
It's that time of year; if you're not buying, writing or posting them, you're plucking them out of the mailbox.
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Irises by Rita Angus
This article first appeared as 'The meticulous small world of Rita Angus' in The Press on 9 December 2014.
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100 years of the Cass field station
Last weekend the University of Canterbury Biology Department celebrated the 100th anniversary of the field station at Cass with a symposium on Cass followed up with a field trip to the station.
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Happy Birthday Akaroa Museum
Big Congratulations to Akaroa Museum on their 50th anniversary which they are celebrating this weekend.
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Scrabbling
There are some great transitional works in our basement these days. It turns out Fulton Hogan employee Juan Pablo Laplechade is pretty handy with a scrabbler...
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Aroha ki te Takata a Rohe
Voluntary work is work done of one's own free will, unpaid, for the common good.
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Aspirin, light bulbs and instant coffee
Robert Hughes's canonical text The Shock of the New was first published in 1980 following a successful television series that aired in the UK that same year. In this book, Hughes provided a lively and challenging account of the development of modern art and design in the twentieth century. That this volume should find its way onto the bookshelf of New Zealand art collectors Jim Barr and Mary Barr is no surprise. But the Barrs' copy of the book subsequently became the site for a series of interventions and adaptations that have altered its meaning and significance.