Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
Living Archives
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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Notes
Nosferatwho?
For me, the best bits in vintage photographs are often the bits the photographer didn't really mean to capture.
Collection
Allie Eagle Self Portrait
Allie Eagle was a leading figure in Aotearoa New Zealand’s feminist movement of the 1970s. She had an acute awareness of current international trends in feminist art, and as an artist and curator she strove to give women more presence in the national art discourse – which was dominated by men. Alongside her own art practice, she curated exhibitions such as Woman’s Art: Six Women Artists (1976) and Olivia Spencer Bower: Retrospective (1977), bringing attention to a generation of emerging artists as well as the achievements of senior women artists, at a time when the focus was strongly on male artists.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Notes
On Being a Curator (1)
'Am I a curator when I go to my wardrobe and select a few clothes for my naked form for a day?' asks Grant Smithies in his tongue-in-cheek column in the Sunday Star Times on 21 October.
Notes
Ms Kia Ora
It's not uncommon to be wrongly addressed in one way or another in general Gallery correspondence. We still get letters and circulars addressed to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, which has been closed some ten years or so.
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Strange genius... in Palmy
'He might have incarnated from the dark side of the moon', wrote the Irish literary figure George Russell in 1929, 'Harry Clarke is one of the strangest geniuses of his time.' A recent visit to Palmerston North provided vivid evidence of Russell's claim...
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Unruly, unexpected and oblique images
Combining unexpected detours, unruly surfaces and oblique viewpoints, the artists in Keep left, keep right invite viewers to slow down and take notice of the city that surrounds them.