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The kind of 'liquefaction' we love

Painter Tjalling de Vries dispenses some of the good goo in his Christchurch studio. For more of the runny stuff, see the Rolling Maul feature in our new Bulletin.

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.

The extraordinary ordinary: Sylvia Siddell 1941 - 2011

We were saddened to hear of the recent death of artist Sylvia Siddell (ONZM).

What might have been

Back in 1999, over ninety architects submitted designs for the Christchurch Art Gallery building.

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.

Enemy action

Christchurch in 2011 has been likened, incorrectly to be sure, to a war zone.

The Picturesque

Leaving certain earthquake-damaged buildings as picturesque ruins has been the subject of debate in Christchurch recently.

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.

Notes

Infinite Gesture

"Tradition is not reproduced. It is thrown and caught. It lives a long time in the air."