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Launch of Liberty Gallery
by Liberty Gallery
In 1979 the Liberty Stage sprung up in inner-city Auckland in response to a firmly ensconced Punk Rock scene. By the early '80s, the venue was host to some of New Zealand’s music icons; The Clean, Don McGlashan's Blam Blam Blam, and The Screaming Mee-Mees.
Now, nearly 30 years later Liberty Stage will be reopening its doors as Liberty Gallery, a curatorial project initiated by Joanna Galvin and Leah Forsyth formerly of Cross Street Studios.
Galvin and Forsyth endeavour to provide a New Zealand based platform for newly established local and international lo-fi artists.
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Tuesday 21 October 2008
Letters from Ronald's Room
by Taranaki artist Dale Copeland
Ronald Hugh Morrieson, 1922 - 1972, immortalised the town of Hawera. But not in the way they would have chosen to be remembered. In his 'Taranaki Gothic Horror' novels The Scarecrow, Came a Hot Friday, Predicament and Pallet on the Floor he took a 'worm's eye view' of the place and its people.
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Monday 20 October 2008
Art All #92 - Making connections from inside and out
by Branwen Lorigan
Branwen Lorigan profiles two tertiary students successfully using connections to promote themselves and their art work.
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Thursday 16 October 2008
The Philosophers Pronounce
by Bill Cooke
Another month, another conference. This time in Seoul, South Korea for the 22nd World Congress of Philosophy, the head-bangers’ olympics. I wasn’t intending to report on the congress at all, thinking instead to give some general impressions of Korean art, but as it turned out, I couldn’t break away from the congress for long enough to gain any sort of impression. This proved not to be a problem, at least from the perspective of writing this column, because so many interesting things were said at the congress that there was no shortage of valuable insights to share. Two points made seemed especially relevant to the state of the visual arts, both of which I have commented on before.
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Monday 6 October 2008
ARTSPACE Appoints new Director
ARTSPACE announced today the appointment of a new Director, Emma Bugden
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Monday 8 September 2008
AOTEA SQUARE ART WORKS PROTECTED
In September, the council is removing and storing four of the public art works currently located in Aotea Square, ahead of the construction programme, which is scheduled to run from November 2008 to October 2010. Three of the four art works will return to the square on completion of construction.
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Thursday 28 August 2008
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
by Deborah White
With an invitation every other week to attend an international art event and a limited amount of time, funds and resources to take advantage of all the offers, careful consideration and research went into our decision to take a stand at the LA Art Show.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Art Circus – The Stations of the Cross
As a University affiliated gallery, The Gus Fisher Gallery exhibition programme grows out of an active research agenda. It is committed to promoting, understanding and engaging with contemporary debates in visual arts and culture. To this end, the exhibitions held here always facilitate discussion and are richly intellectual. Last year alone, the gallery hosted many exhibitions including (to my mind) the most interesting programming in the Auckland Triennial, an exhibition and lecture by visiting Hood Fellow Stephen Farthing examining the nature of drawing and its relationship to art and an exhibition by John Reynolds, just to name a few.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Political World
by Jessica Schwartz
Where we live greatly impacts how we see the world. This is expressed in the way we speak, the way we dress and the art we create. I attend university in Boston and live a short drive from one of the world’s cultural and artistic meccas, New York City. These cities have exposed me to various types of visual art from Renaissance portraits to modern sculptures. I enjoy and appreciate art and have dabbled in photography myself, but I am fundamentally an outsider in the realm of the visual arts. In addition to my lack of expertise in art, I am also new to New Zealand. As a Boston University student, I decided to take advantage of the study abroad internship programme in Auckland, allowing me to spend six months studying, working, and travelling in New Zealand.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Matador
by Emma Pratt
A story told to a Pasa Doble and also a little of the Gladiator soundtrack.
When Conrado was a child, he ate, slept and breathed bull fighting. By the age of 12, he was among the young protégées of his time. Focused and dedicated, he gave up everything, including school, to pursue his career. At a young age he had reached up through the ranks in his home area to become a matador. He enjoyed great local success, but he had his sights set on the great bullrings of Spain and beyond.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Blessed are the Mentors
by Emma Pratt
Blesséd are the Mentors,
for they shall bring forth fruits on the Earth.
For Rangipo.
Holy Tuesday. 6.30pm.
“No, no, no, you cannot write in the Arabian teahouse. You won’t write there. You need to stay here, but go inside out of the wind.”
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Yes, Earth matters
by Bill Cooke
At the beginning of last year I wrote a gloomy piece on the impending environmental meltdown the planet is facing. This was in response to Sir Nicholas Stern’s report in Britain and Al Gore’s documentary film An Inconvenient Truth (Art all, No. 82, February/March 2007, pp 8-9). So, I was pleased to see the Auckland City Art Gallery put on the exhibition called Earth Matters, due to run from May till September.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Of landshapes, faces and distance
by Bill Cooke
It’s hard work being an artist. Ask Anna Hollings. She’d know, and this is one of the things that is interesting about her. Anna Hollings has no formal art education at all, with no BFA or BVA to her name. Normally, we are supposed to take from this that her work is therefore lacking in some aspect or another. But we would be wrong. This whole question is interesting to me, whose working life is spent creating people who can put BVA at the end of their name.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Everything’s Bigger in Brisbane
Over the last few years Brisbane has started to outgrow Auckland in population, and also in terms of arts infrastructure. The Government has pumped millions of dollars into Brisbane in order to prepare the city for a more cultured position into the future. Cultural tourism is big business and Brisbane wants a piece of this pie. Specifically, the multimillion dollar Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) was opened to huge fanfare in late 2006 and has held a number of high profile international exhibitions, from the fifth Asia Pacific Triennial to the recently concluded Andy Warhol exhibition. In a couple of months a huge Picasso exhibition will be staged. GoMA has transformed Brisbane into a cultural destination and with such a colossus looming across the banks of the Brisbane River come subsidiary cultural meccas.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Just how at home do we feel our public space?
by Julia Scott
I have been struck by how private and ‘separate’ we often are in Auckland’s CBD public spaces – we may eat lunch in the same physical place but we pretty much keep to ourselves in public space. Temporary public art offers rare moments of community and connection others in the public spaces of our city.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Stations of the Cross
As a University affiliated gallery, The Gus Fisher Gallery exhibition programme grows out of an active research agenda. It is committed to promoting, understanding and engaging with contemporary debates in visual arts and culture. To this end, the exhibitions held here always facilitate discussion and are richly intellectual. Last year alone, the gallery hosted many exhibitions including (to my mind) the most interesting programming in the Auckland Triennial, an exhibition and lecture by visiting Hood Fellow Stephen Farthing examining the nature of drawing and its relationship to art and an exhibition by John Reynolds, just to name a few.
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Tuesday 1 April 2008
A Pale Thread of Static
by Emma Pratt
If a tree falls in a forest…
An overworked barman with half an eye on the game lets out a cry,
“OIIIISH! Almost!....Yes love?”
“Have you got a pen?”
A pen is spirited to me somewhere between the exchange of money, a few beers and another glance at the screen. The bar is full, it’s a big match: Seville versus Barcelona. Javier hadn’t wanted to watch the match in the pub alone (boo hoo) so, for a few beers, I had agreed to keep him company. Another unified pub sigh - Barcelona has just scored… bugger.
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Tuesday 19 February 2008
The new curriculum
by Branwen Lorigan
‘I don't want to change the world
I'm not looking for a new England
I'm just looking for another girl’
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Tuesday 19 February 2008
OUT DOOR SCULPTURE IN THE SUMMERTIME
Aaaah summer. The heat, the long sunny days, the heat! From an arts perspective, it’s a great time to get out and see the ever increasing amount of outdoor sculpture on view, especially while the inner city galleries are either closed or too hot to stand being in for long.
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Monday 18 February 2008
Coherent existence in Hamilton
by Bill Cooke
In the last issue of this magazine I commented on the ill-fitting oddness of the Mystic Truths exhibition. One of the things that attracted me to the Existence: Life According to Art exhibition at the Waikato Museum was how it would deal with the same challenge. It really would be very easy for an exhibition with a theme as broad as existence to be either incoherent or vacuous. It is to the immense credit of the Waikato Museum and to Leafa Wilson, the curator of this exhibition, that these pitfalls were avoided.
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Tuesday 5 February 2008
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