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Janet Hughes reviews "Conversātiō – in the company of bees", a bee-utiful new book by photographer Anne Noble.
Oct 7, 20215 min read
Public pots
Janet Hughes checks out Shane Cotton's five-storey-high mural.
Sep 9, 20214 min read
Bikes and blooms
Two new installations in Dunedin offer flowers in bronze tyres and a bike against a bench.
Aug 10, 20212 min read
All that cannot be seen
Finding inspiration in the invisible.
May 21, 20214 min read
There’s more on the back
Janet Hughes reviews "The Back of the Painting", a book that looks at what can be divined from looking behind.
Apr 21, 20213 min read
A show for everybody and nobody
Can history set boundaries? Can an individual artist remove them? Federico Magrin reviews "Containing Multitudes" at City Gallery.
Feb 1, 20213 min read
Rural remedy
Fairooz Samy reviews "Observations of a Rural Nurse" by photographer and nurse Sara McIntyre.
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Ramped up
In New York, Sophie McKinnon visits an exhibition that explores the fundamental tension between autonomy and dependency.
Jan 13, 20214 min read
A friend of a friend
Maeve Hughes reviews "Shining Land," the second book in the kōrero series.
Nov 19, 20203 min read
Old feelings
Ed Atkins mixes the comfortable with the grotesque, survival with entropy, and the literal with the "super-vicious artificial".
Oct 27, 20203 min read
A sense of mounting riches
Janet Hughes reads volume two of Peter Simpson's McCahon series. Does it live up to the praise the first volume received?
Oct 21, 20202 min read
To paint your way across
Maeve Hughes reviews 'High Wire', the first picture book in Massey University Press’ new ‘kōrero’ series.
Jun 15, 20202 min read
Close encounter
Maeve Hughes reviews 'Encounter 1', the first in a series of exhibitions exploring 'encounter' at Wellington's City Gallery.
Mar 6, 20205 min read
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.
Mar 3, 20205 min read
All the same
Avenal McKinnon considers Yoko Ono's new and recreated works in her Beijing exhibition 'Golden Ladders'.
Jan 16, 20203 min read
Photographer as alchemist
David Eggleton reviews ' A Beautiful Hesitation' which follows the career and photographs of Fiona Pardington.
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Sick art
Anna Jackson-Scott reviews 'Creamy Pyschology', a 260 page accompaniment to Yvonne Todd's photo portraits of constructed female characters.
Jan 8, 20202 min read
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 6, 20203 min read
In the world of nincompoops
Frances Upritchard brings her humorous sculptural figures to a new exhibition in Los Angeles, writes June Fairhead.
Jan 1, 20203 min read
Leader of the pack
American artist, Bill Viola explores questions of existence, life and the forces around us in his recent exhibition 'Transformation'.
Dec 25, 20193 min read
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