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Jan 16
3 min

All the same

Avenal McKinnon considers Yoko Ono's new and recreated works in her Beijing exhibition 'Golden Ladders'.

Jan 6
3 min

Hockney in China

Avenal McKinnon explores 'The Arrival of Spring', a new and innovative exhibition by David Hockney, who chooses an iPad as his medium.

Jan 1
3 min

In the world of nincompoops

Frances Upritchard brings her humorous sculptural figures to a new exhibition in Los Angeles, writes June Fairhead.

Dec 25, 2019
3 min

Leader of the pack

American artist, Bill Viola explores questions of existence, life and the forces around us in his recent exhibition 'Transformation'.

Dec 18, 2019
2 min

Temporal landscapes

Wanaka-based Martin Hill and Philippa Jones draw attention to environmental degradation in their exhibition 'Temporal Landscapes'.

Dec 5, 2019
4 min

Genuine reproduction

After completing an art residency in South China, Emily Hartley-Skudder returns to Aotearoa and discusses what she learnt and created.

Oct 17, 2019
4 min

Poetry commotion

Investigating relationships, systems, and equilibrium, Richard Tuttle marries language and image in a poem that unfolds as an installation.

Sep 3, 2019
4 min

Dance cycles

An NYC choreographer uses an evolving dance residency to challenge our notions of stasis. Sophie McKinnon reports.

Aug 15, 2019
5 min

Invisible labour

In Carlos Sandoval de León’s exhibition at Cindy Rucker Gallery in New York, a conscious system of change is operating in situ.

Jun 13, 2019
4 min

Seeing everything

Sophie McKinnon revisits Yayoi Kusama's most enduring works, and finds euphoria and invigoration in the artists reflections of the world.

May 3, 2019
4 min

Eco system

In a small room on the edge of Bortolami’s substantial Tribeca gallery space hang six works by New York artist Brook Hsu, which form an e...

Feb 15, 2019
4 min

Solid states

Otobong Nkanga explores the contested social and political histories of colonialism through performance, drawing, photography, and instal...

Nov 7, 2018
2 min

Blind navigations

Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats cover more than 30,000 acres. The unique natural feature is perfectly flat with a thick crust of salty soil....

Sep 27, 2018
3 min

Knives and neighbourhoods

We revisit CONDO, an international gallery exchange. This year features a collaboration with New Zealand gallery Hopkinson Mossman. Isabe...

Sep 7, 2018
2 min

Some like it hot (or not)

Artist Emily Hartley-Skudder has just arrived in Xiamen, South China for a three month artist residency. We asked her how she’s settling ...

Sep 4, 2018
4 min

Waves in the desert

New Zealand artist Sam Trubridge finds an unexpected oasis at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Modern and Contemporary Art: A Fuller Picture...

Aug 20, 2018
1 min

Viva Mexico

Mexican artist, writer, cultural critic and educator Eduardo Abaroa is in Wellington as the latest Te Whare Hēra international artist in ...

Jul 24, 2018
5 min

Grounded no longer

What began as a way to open up her world has turned agoraphobic Jacqui Kenny into an artist who’s begun exhibiting internationally. She t...

Jul 23, 2018
4 min

Puzzles poetry and pyramids

A group of men convene in the desert at an oblong table with a pink tablecloth. They sit side on or backs to us, in conversation but stat...

Jul 18, 2018
4 min

Other fables

Sophie McKinnon reviews the first retrospective of Grant Wood's work, in 35 years, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Grant...

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