Cape Reinga Lighthouse is one of New Zealand’s most-visited and photographed lighthouses. The famous Cape Reinga Lighthouse does more than just look pretty in a picture – it has an important job, providing one of the first lights ships will see as they approach New Zealand. Built in 1941, it replaced a lighthouse on nearby Motuopao Island which, because of its remote location, had become too dangerous to service – a few years earlier, the wife of an assistant lighthouse keeper was swept off the rocks. The new lighthouse at Cape Reinga was the last staffed lighthouse built in New Zealand, and had two keepers up until 1987, when it was automated.
Terminal
resembles a waiting room. Or, more specifically, those rooms currently more uncomfortable than a dentist’s, airports. Curated by Aaron Lister, this smart melancholy exhibition is dedicated to the politics, anxieties, dehumanisation and plain boredom of our airports’ transit spaces. The gallery’s rooms are cleverly accessibly themed ‘’arrivals’’, ‘‘departures’’, ‘’screening’’ and ‘’runway’’. Smart video works play on multiple airport information screens. There are even the seats you will find at Wellington Airport to wait on - the ubiquitous Eames Tandem Sling Seating.
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Even Quasi is waiting. The face-hand sculpture by Ronnie Van Hout, propped on legs made from an upturned two-finger salute glowers down on Ngākau Civic Square, atop City Gallery.