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How to hang pictures
While working in the North Island recently I researched these two magnificent examples of innovative art hanging.
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Happy Snapper
He's done a lot since then, but to me John Reynolds will always be the artist who walked from the Arts Centre into town to buy a roll of film,* but was so entranced by the beauty of fallen leaves in the Avon River that he used it all up on the way back.
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International Beer Day!
I couldn't resist a selection of beer related art works from the Gallery's collection. My favourite is Hogarth's Bear drinking beer or is that beer drinking bear.
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Burning sands of Onekaka
While staying in Takaka last week I stopped off at Onekaka, which is just up the road from the Mussel Inn – one of my favourite bars.
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Malevich was a sailor
My recent visit to Nelson's Founders Heritage Park last week was motivated by the incredible collection of ancient printing equipment in the Nelson Printery. However, a surprise lay in wait for me on entering the Maritime Building.
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KO WAI KOE?
On this day in 1987, the Maori Language Act came into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand.
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Along the Heaphy Highway
An invitation to stay with friends at Mapua recently was an offer too good to turn down, and provided a thankful respite from the beaten and bruised town of Christchurch.
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When green is the new brown
You can't polish a turd – or so they say, but full credit to the Christchurch City Council for trying.