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Jun 15
2 min

To paint your way across

Maeve Hughes reviews 'High Wire', the first picture book in Massey University Press’ new ‘kōrero’ series.

Mar 6
5 min

Close encounter

Maeve Hughes reviews 'Encounter 1', the first in a series of exhibitions exploring 'encounter' at Wellington's City Gallery.

Mar 3
5 min

Multi McCahon

It's 100 years since the birth of Colin McCahon. In celebration Janet Hughes checks out two new books examining the artist's life and work.

Jan 16
3 min

All the same

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

Jan 12
2 min

Photographer as alchemist

David Eggleton reviews ' A Beautiful Hesitation' which follows the career and photographs of Fiona Pardington.

Jan 8
2 min

Sick art

Anna Jackson-Scott reviews 'Creamy Pyschology', a 260 page accompaniment to Yvonne Todd's photo portraits of constructed female characters.

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 15, 2019
3 min

Self ashore

Catharina van Bohemen reviews Gregory O'Brien's 'Always Song In The Water', which meditates on what it means to live in Aotearoa.

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 5, 2019
4 min

Twice as nice

150 years since the birth of Frances Hodgkins' sees the release of two new publications detailing her life and work.

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 27, 2019
4 min

Language of light

Visiting 'Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys' in Auckland, Maeve Hughes found the artist was fluent in the language of light.

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.

Aug 1, 2019
3 min

Time, space, light and sound

'Semiconductor: the Technological Sublime', an enchanting and absorbing art video installation, gets a visit and review from Janet Hughes.

Jul 11, 2019
5 min

A call to contribute

Matariki Williams visited 'Māori Moving Image: An Open Archive' and writes how the concept of palimpsest helped her understand its layers.

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.

Jun 6, 2019
2 min

Space of shapes

Maeve Hughes tells how Eva Rothschild's 'Kosmos' at Wellington's City Gallery allows the viewer to become a cosmonaut in a space of shapes.

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