Monthly Archives: May 2011
Oculus
Oculus is an ambitious project. Founded, edited and published by postgraduate students from the University of Canterbury’s Art History and Fine Arts departments, it is the only journal of its type in New Zealand. A discussion following the release of the third issue. Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
Getting inside
You fit over me
Like a lock to a key Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
The militant tit
For a daily dose of rank idiocy, you can’t go past afternoons with Jim Mora on National Radio. The guy epitomises the genial fool – the pliant, impressionable innocent who is only ever as good as his last conversation. He’ll … Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
Art in the Alleyway: Zhonghao Chen’s Suzhou Studio
AHD takes a trip to Zhonghao Chen’s painting studio in Suzhou, China, and finds an artist renewed in a fascinating setting. Continue reading
Filed under Arts
On Reading ‘The Lazy Boys’
A personal reading of Carl Shuker’s ‘The Lazy Boys’, and a brief discussion of Marc Ellis and the novel’s gender politics. Continue reading
Filed under Literary Criticism
