Library and Archives
Bulletin Magazine
B.134
Download PDFSpring 2003
Contents include
The Changing Face of Maori Art
Islands in the Sun
Len Lye
Peter Siddell: Landscape
Bluebeard's Castle
Seen
Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award 2003
The Creation of the Melbourne Collections
Japonism in Fashion
In Memory of Robert Erwin
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Going online
I’ve never actually seen the Mona Lisa, and it’s a fair bet that most people reading this article haven’t either. Yet, according to Wikipedia, the painting is ‘the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world’. So how to account for the fame of an artwork we haven’t seen? And what have reproductions of Da Vinci’s sixteenth-century portrait got to teach us about time-based art and the online environment in 2015?
Notes
Love Len Lye
I've always been a fan of Len Lye's work so it was a treat to see his kinetic sculpture on display in Len Lye: Kaleidoscope at the City Gallery when I passed through Wellington last week.
Exhibition
Len Lye: The Total Artwork
Celebrates the centenary of one of New Zealand's most inventive artists.
Article
Some notes on movement in art
Hanging from the ceiling in my infant son's room is a mobile. At rest, he seems to scarcely notice its suspended figures, but a quick breath brings them to life and, drawn to their gentle twirling, his face brightens and body tenses with a laugh.
