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Every week, we send two writers to an art exhibit in Ōtepoti Dunedin. One of them will choose a specific piece, and describe it to the other without them looking. They’ll try to figure out what the piece
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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.
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Kedron Parker has a new set of large poster works at the underpass at Inanga Love Park, Korokoro Stream, Petone.
I had a transformative experience once atop Maungawhau, Mount Eden, Auckland’s highest volcano. It was with kaumātua and historian Pita Turei. I’d been up there many times before. Yet, this time it was as if the surrounding landscape had been lit up. Where I used to simply trace the streets of the city I grew up in, through Pita’s storytelling different precious, productive and sacred areas came alive. Well employed, the arts can speak to the complexity of things in our city that are harder to see, and encourage us to take better care of our environment and each other. I’ve been in Wellington 24 years. It’s still not home but there are cultural touchstones that help me feel grounded in the city. They connect to things otherwise hidden, and they often draw us to water: artworks connected to a network of streams.