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Getting some on you
From a talk given by senior curator Justin Paton at the opening of Roger Boyce's The Illustrated history of painting at Christchurch Art Gallery on 12 August.
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Digital Resurrection
I have been busy adding digitized versions of various print publications to the website this week.
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Julian Dashper remembered
Tena koe,
In August this year Marie Shannon sent out an invite to some folks to write a memoir about Julian Dashper, the final text would be sent to Matthew Deleget of Minus Space, NY, and included in an exhibition honouring the first year of Julian's passing.
Marie and Matt have kindly agreed to let me add my text to our blog, I hope it might bring some memories of your own about our friend to the fore ...
Cheers, Nathan
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NYC - Public Art
I'm back now, but two New York experiences of public art have stayed with me; Antony Gormley's Event Horizon at and around Madison Square Park (on 5th Avenue and 23rd Street), and the Starn brothers' project, Big Bambú, on the rooftop sculpture area at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Trans Tasman
In 2008 I was employed as an Art and Object Handler at the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, in Greenwich, London. About halfway through my year working there I was sent on a course which focussed on the safe handling and movement of oversized, heavy sculptures. The course involved workshops, lectures, and a very interesting array of people from galleries and museums throughout the UK, and was held at West Dean College, which stretches over 10kms along the Sussex South Downs and Lavant Valley in Chichester, South East England.
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Mueck Catalogues
While the show itself is still about 8 weeks away from opening, the Ron Mueck exhibition catalogues have just gone on sale in our shop.
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Dear Mr Bulletin
For some unknown reason, the Bulletin inbox appears to be more susceptible to spam than the rest of the Gallery's mail system, which frequently withholds fairly important messages from me. Doing my usual trawl through the inbox today it occurred to me that the emphasis of Bulletin's spam appears to have developed over the last year or so.
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NYC
Peter Vangioni and I visited the Jewish Museum in NYC late last week - it had been the last day of a particularly interesting and nicely-focussed exhibition we were both impressed by 'Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, Gottlieb'. The three artists were commissioned to make a work each in the early 1950s for a synagogue in Milburn, New Jersey and this brought together the three works and some preliminary drawings in a 'small, but transcendent exhibition.' (I'm glad the New York Times reviewer agreed with us!)
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The Valley of Darkness
In preparation for the Gallery's forthcoming exhibition and publication, Gallery photographer John Collie is busily photographing Petrus Van der Velden works.
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Toronto
I was really pleased to be able to spend a couple of days in Toronto last week. It was the first time I'd been to this city and I was struck with the difference in pace from Manhattan – it seemed somehow more like New Zealand, perhaps unsurprising given the British heritage of both countries. This was confirmed in a way I hadn't expected by my visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario.