The work of Ayesha Green and Shona Rapira Davies powerfull mix in Toi TÅ« Toi Ora.
Forget the backstage dramas in Wellington’s museums just for a moment: let’s celebrate art history getting exciting again. First, there was
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Dominion Post front page news - City Gallery Wellington is to host an exhibition of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint in December. This show got New York’s Guggenheim its largest audience in its history. Pause on that for a moment - not Picasso, Van Gogh or Monet. “Klint who?” most will have asked. Or, “Don’t you mean Gustav Klimt?” the Austrian painter whose life, like Klint’s, crossed two centuries when painting was the big European game.
Dominic Hoey is back with the premiere of his new show.
45 Cents an Hour tackles classism and gate keeping in our arts institutions, tracking Dominic’s journey from rapper and performance poet, to theatre maker and novelist. It also features dogs, songs and crying.tickets bats.co.nz
Poetry Book Launch: ‘How to Live With Mammals’ by Ash Davida Jane
Unity Books, 6-7:30pm, free Celebrate the launch of Ash Davida Jane’s new poetry collection,
How to Live With Mammals
. All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others and so many last things?
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Children
Capital E, until December 22, 9.30am-3.30pm, free Sure to put a twinkle in the eyes of tamariki, expect an array of light-based play activities, including interactive light up ‘Flickmas trees’, stars dripping from the ceiling, a glow table, light art and much more.
Zealandia by Night
Zealandia Eco-Sanctuary, Karori, today and tomorrow, 8.30pm-11pm, child $40, adult $85 Explore the sanctuary by torchlight as your guide leads you in search of some of the more distinctive sights and sounds of New Zealand’s native forest. See unique species such as wētā, glow worms, and tuatara. Your group may see some of the 130 little spotted kiwi who call Zealandia home. Bookings essential. visitzealandia.com/Visit#tours
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Culture – Ground-breaking immersive installation opens in Te Papa's Toi Art foreignaffairs.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from foreignaffairs.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.