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Shiraz Sadikeen, Interior, 2019, mixed media collage.

Sadikeen and Burton

satchi&satchi&satchi

Auckland

 

Rea Burton and Shiraz Sadikeen
Trust

 

8 February - 28 February 2019

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Trent Thompson's 'Hydrocal White' paintings as installed in his 'In Lieu' exhibition at Skinroom gallery

White Leaning on White

SKINROOM

Hamilton


Trent Thompson
In Lieu


15 February - 9 March 2019

 

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The Catholic Church of Puke.

The Gaunt Messiah

EyeContact Essay #28

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Rohan Hartley Mills' Jazz Plastic as installed upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Improv Signs on Paper and Plastic

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Rohan Hartley Mills
Jazz Plastic

 

1 February - 2 March 2019

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David Shrigley, Untitled, 2018, acrylic on paper, 500 x 370 mm. Courtesy Stephen Friedman Gallery, London  ©David Shrigley

Shrigley’s Coloured Works on Paper

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

David Shrigley
Works on Paper

 

1 February - 2 March 2019

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Image from Bill Watterson's 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic

Remapping Denial, Of Denial, Of …

EyeContact Essay #27

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Still from Lara Arellano's Mientras paseo en cisne (2010)

Memorable Short Videos

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

International videos
Unlikely Transits (Trânsitos Improváveis)

 


1 December 2018 - 10 March 2019

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Jim Allen's Community (1973) on the top floor sculpture court of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

Seventies Auckland Avant-Garde

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Group show

Groundswell: Avant-Garde Auckland 1971-79

 


8 December 2018 - 31 March 2019

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Richard Frater Solo Show

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Richard Frater
Indifference

 

23 January - 23 February 2019


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Christina Pataialii, Solid gold, 2018 (install view), photo by Sam Hartnett

Pataialii Installation

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Christina Pataialii
Solid Gold

 


1 December 2018 - 10 March 2019

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Deborah Rundle, Optimism of the Will, 2018, (detail) two fluorescent tubes, battens, vinyl cut text, courtesy of the artist

Paean to Gramsci

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Deborah Rundle
Are We Not Ready?

1 December 2018 - 10 March 2019

APW

Blackley Publication

Roger Blackley


Galleries of Maoriland:
Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880-1910


Auckland University Press, October 2018


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The installation of YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES' Asia is for Poor Slobs, 2014, at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Language Fusillade

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Some Graphic Sex, Heavy Drinking, Bloody Violence, and Dirty Language


24 November, 2018 - 24 February, 2019

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The Latest ‘White Fungus’

Taipei

White Fungus #16

 

Edited by Ron Hanson
Art directed by Mark Hanson

Published in Taipei, Jan 2019

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A Digression is Not a Distraction

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

Auckland

 

distracted-reader
Time to Think Like a Mountain



Issue #3, Split / Fountain 2018


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Sydney-based Art Journal

diˈvan: A Journal of Accounts (Art / Culture / Theory)

Issue #4

Edited by Alan Cruickshank


Published by diˈvan and University of NSW Art and Design, July 2018

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The Eighth ‘Reading Room’

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture

 

Issue #8: Politics in Denial

 

Edited by Christina Barton, Natasha Conland, Wystan Curnow

 

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2018

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Robert Sabuda. Peter Pan: a pop-up adaptation of J. M. Barrie's original tale. New York: Little Simon, 2008.

Books Containing Paper Sculpture

Sir George Grey Special Collections Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero, Central City Library

 

Auckland

 

Books from Sir George Grey Special Collections
Playful: Pop-up Books

 

12 December 2018 - 3 March 2019


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George Rump, Still-Life Pictures as installed at Window. Photo: George Rump

Static Non-Moving Pictures

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

George Rump
Still-Life Pictures

 

14 December 2018 - late February 2019

 

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Sweet Yellow Intoxicant

The Audio Foundation with Wiggley Tapes

Wellington/Auckland

 

Wendyhouse
Banana Wine

 

Comic with CD

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Jerome Ngan-Kee, New/Content, detail, as installed at Mercy Pictures. Photo: the artist

Interpretation and Trust

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland

 

Jerome Ngan-Kee
New/Content

 

13 December 2018 - 31 December 2018