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Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
A rare opportunity to view the work of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most adventurous and experimental modernist artists.
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
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Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Chocker
In the first few published critical responses, there's been a bit of talk about how much art has been packed into the impressive spaces of the new Auckland Art Gallery.
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The extraordinary ordinary: Sylvia Siddell 1941 - 2011
We were saddened to hear of the recent death of artist Sylvia Siddell (ONZM).
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What might have been
Back in 1999, over ninety architects submitted designs for the Christchurch Art Gallery building.
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Didn't get to sleep last night
The title of Jim Speers's sculpture rang true yet again the other night. But this time it wasn't aftershocks keeping me and half the neighbourhood awake – it was a roadwork crew.
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The Picturesque
Leaving certain earthquake-damaged buildings as picturesque ruins has been the subject of debate in Christchurch recently.
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What I'd like to steal from the AAG
There's a whole lot of new exhibition space in the just reopened Auckland Art Gallery, and a whole lot of art hung (and sometimes shoehorned) inside it. But if the two small rooms containing the promised gift of Julian and Josie Robertson were the only spaces to see, a trip to Auckland in the near future would still be compulsory.
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Infinite Gesture
"Tradition is not reproduced. It is thrown and caught. It lives a long time in the air."
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
The Pruitt-Igoe social housing development in St Louis, Missouri is often held up – or beaten down – as the case of modernist social housing gone bad.