Jpeg fatigue and the art world online
Sophie McKinnon looks at the art world's evolving relationship with digital necessity.
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- Jan 13, 2021
- 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.
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