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Jan 13
4 min

Ramped up

In New York, Sophie McKinnon visits an exhibition that explores the fundamental tension between autonomy and dependency.

Oct 27, 2020
3 min

Old feelings

Ed Atkins mixes the comfortable with the grotesque, survival with entropy, and the literal with the "super-vicious artificial".

Jan 16, 2020
3 min

All the same

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

Jan 6, 2020
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, 2020
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

Sophie McKinnon looks into the world of New York artist, Brook Hsu, and finds eco-works that reveal processes of reflection and healing.

Feb 15, 2019
4 min

Solid states

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

Nov 7, 2018
2 min

Blind navigations

Artist and performance designer Sam Trubridge turns a five year old dream of performing on the Bonneville Salt Flats into a reality.

Sep 27, 2018
3 min

Knives and neighbourhoods

This year at CONDO, an international gallery exchange, a collaboration with New Zealand gallery Hopkinson Mossman turns heads.

Sep 7, 2018
2 min

Some like it hot (or not)

Encountering pastel hues and intense heat, Emily Hartley-Skudder has just arrived in Xiamen for a three month artists residency.

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.

Aug 20, 2018
1 min

Viva Mexico

Mexican artist Eduardo Abaroa is in Wellington as the latest Te Whare Hēra international artist in residence.

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.

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