All Articles Tagged With: art

Mirrored years at the City Gallery: Yayoi Kusama

Last week I experienced the compulsive and extraordinary work of Yayoi Kusama, currently on show at the recently re-opened Wellington City Gallery, until Feb 7, 2010.

9 Dec, 2009 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: art, installation

Caitlin Masley: The Tel Aviv Series

Living and Working out of Brooklyn, New York, the subject of Caitlin Masley's latest series of works is Tel Aviv, following a body of work committed to studying urban spatiality.

16 Dec, 2009 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: art, etc, portfolio

Skarbakka Backbreaker

Check out American artist Kerry Skarbakka's performative photographs, inspired by dare-devil stunts and tragic slips.

19 Dec, 2009 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: art, etc, portfolio

Her Theory of Everything

Fresh from graduation, Swedish Illustrator Karin Rönmark's 'Theory of Everything' is currently on show at Designhuis, a part-drawn, partly constructed story of Everything.

29 Dec, 2009 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: art, drawing, portfolio

Exhibition for Toomath in the New Year!

The substantial work of Wellington architect Bill Toomath will be the feature of celebratory exhibition at the Hirschfeld Gallery, opening January 29, 2010.

30 Dec, 2009 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: architecture, art

"And These Are My City Clothes..."

French artist Elisabeth Lecourt prompts a curious phenomena of way-finding fashionware, deftly folding urban maps into quaint dresses and button-down shirts, demanding more from our technologically lame clothes.

14 Jan, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: art, craft, fashion

NZ Blog Feature: The Russian Frost Farmers

Keeping tabs on this collective is a time-consuming but rewarding commitment, with an energetic and productive working-thinking ethos, the RFF supplement prolific exhibition-making with sharp, succinct and witty blogging.

18 Jan, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: art, blog, installation

To Do

Break out your Diary and get a few of these down: events of all sorts from around the country in architecture, design and the arts.

25 Jan, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: architecture, art, event

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

Caleb Larson is the artist responsible for A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter, an institution-cracking piece of work which continually sells itself on eBay.

27 Jan, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: art, ideas, neurotic

Long Live the Modern at The New Dowse and More

Opened last week at the New Dowse, Long Live the Modern is a constructed extension of Julia Gatley's highly successful book of the same name. Curated by Gatley and Bill McKay, the exhibition brings drawings, photographs, models and more to the Hutt Valley.

9 Feb, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: architecture, art, exhibition

Late Lounge & Bill Viola at the New Dowse

A reminder of the upcoming events at the New Dowse, including the Late Lounge session with Hikoikoi, and the exciting opening of Bill Viola's new work this weekend past.

22 Feb, 2010 By Byron comment icon [1] Tags: art, exhibition, video

This Too Shall (be Sur)Pass(ed)

Yet another completely unexpected music video from Ok Go takes the Goldberg machine to a new level, while others enliven the classical arts...

4 Mar, 2010 By byron comment icon [0] Tags: art, neurotic, video

Portfolio: Henrique Oliveira

The installation work of this Brazilian artist is remarkable, sculpted and painted from torn veneer sheets which bulge and morph their way through host spaces.

15 Jul, 2010 By Byron comment icon [1] Tags: art, installation, space

Under Construction until September 26

Not us, or them, but the current show at the New Dowse in Wellington presenting five artists responding to 'space, location and environment' is intriguing, and has gathered some fantastic talent.

23 Jul, 2010 By Byron comment icon [1] Tags: architecture, art, exhibition
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