Category Archives: Arts
Bruno Lawrence’s Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition (Revisited)
A passing glance at Blerta Revisited. Continue reading
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Go See Some Art
Thinking that it was ending this weekend, today I went to take a final look at Julia Morison’s Meet Me On The Other Side. But I was wrong: it’s got another week to run, finishing on 25 March. So I … Continue reading
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He Studied Sculpture
Tony de Lautour: Recent Paintings, at Ilam Campus Gallery, until the 24th of February. With the demise of pretty much every art gallery in Christchurch — and let’s be honest, it wasn’t just the earthquakes — the School of Fine … Continue reading
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If I paid 15 dollars to see Horrible Bosses, you can pay 20 to see The Passion of Joan of Arc
For the past month and half, I’ve been doing something entirely new to me. I haven’t become a pleasant and forgiving person, though possibly that will be the next stop on my journey of self-redefinition. No. But once a week … Continue reading
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Modern Art Oxford: Plot 16, Environment and Being Away From Home
Natural sculpture. Environmental sculpture. What’s it called when people build models and let plants take over under concrete skies, the vines creeping their way up the metal frame and pointing out the top toward the invisible sun, out in a gloomy housing estate allotment a few kilometres out of Oxford? Continue reading
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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
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You Can’t Spell ‘Snob’ Without ‘Nob’: Mince Pies and Ron Mueck
[Image 1: Deligbo on Flickr, shared via Creative Commons licence] Cattle and sheep have thrived across New Zealand since their introduction. The unfortunate kea, on the other hand, had a bounty upon its head for many years: it was too … Continue reading
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Janet Frame in Melbourne: The New Zealand Gothic and Our Art of Unease
In Janet Frame’s A State of Siege (1966), the protagonist, Malfred Signal, despairs that she will never be able to see or paint the New Zealand landscape through fresh eyes. Instead, she is stuck to the directly material, lamenting: ‘I … Continue reading
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Art (non)reviews: The Learned Skill of Saying Nothing
It’s a well-known joke in University English Departments that about half of the staff secretly want to be novelists, poets or playwrights. The other half want to be actors. This joke, like the best of them, contains a grain of … Continue reading
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