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Monday, 19 April 2021, 3:38 pm The Back of the Painting, Secrets and Stories from Art Conservation Painting conservators are the forensic pathologists of the art world. While they cannot bring their subjects back to life, they do provide fascinating insights into the precise circumstances of a painting s creation, its material authenticity, and constructive methodology. Linda Waters, Sarah Hillary, and Jenny Sherman are three such art detectives. They have explored in great detail both the backs and the backgrounds of thirty-three paintings now held in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and the Dunedin Public Art ....
Article – howard davis The Back of the Painting, Secrets and Stories from Art Conservation Painting conservators are the forensic pathologists of the art world. While they cannot bring their subjects back to life, they do provide fascinating insights into the precise circumstances of a painting’s creation, its material authenticity, and constructive methodology. Linda Waters, Sarah Hillary, and Jenny Sherman are three such art detectives. They have explored in great detail both the backs and the backgrounds of thirty-three paintings now held in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. ....
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 The 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. ....
THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of The The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. The “Pleasure Garden” controversy is still the most infamous art story in Christchurch history. As The Press reported on September 4, 1951, “Controversy about ‘The Pleasure Garden’ has occurred intermittently in Christchurch for almost three years. The painting was brought from England by the Canterbury Society of Arts which proposed to purchase a work by Frances Hodgkins. Artist Frances Hodgkins, photographed in 1912. Photo. Alexander Turnbull Library “When this work was rejected, admirers bought the picture for about 100 guineas and offered it to the City Council early in 1949.” ....
Tribute from the NZ Portrait Gallery It is with great sadness that we record the death of our remarkable and much loved first Director, Avenal McKinnon MNZM, in Wellington on 12 March. Avenal became Director of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in May 2005 at a time when the founding Trust had no physical gallery, a collection of only six artworks, no computers, and no assured funding. Prior to then, the Gallery had been almost totally dependent on its dedicated founders and Friends to find temporary premises for occasional exhibitions, run a competition for schools, and raise 100% of its funding. With a degree in English literature from the University of Canterbury and post-graduate study at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, Avenal was the perfect choice to lead the professionalisation of the young Gallery. Initially appointed on a part-time basis for one year, she willingly accepted the challenge of working with a supportive Board to find a permanent home f ....