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Lisa Crowley, The Incandescents, 2017 (video still)

Lisa Crowley Installation & Publication

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Lisa Crowley
The Incandescents

 

12 August - 22 October 2017

APW

The Art Criticism of Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes

 

The Spectacle of Skill

Alfred A. Knopf 2015

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Daniel von Sturmer, Electric Light (facts/figures/starkwhite) as presented at Starkwhite. Detail.

Von Sturmer Installation

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Daniel von Sturmer
Luminous Figures

 

2 September - 30 September 2017


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Maori god symbols, etching, 19th Century.

Gifts and Theft

EyeContact Essay #20
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Installation of Julia Morison's Things From the Book of Shadows at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Surreal and Mimetic Morison

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Julia Morison
Things from the Book of Shadows

 

18 August-16 September 2017

APW
Installation of Andy Leleisi'uao's Homonoia People at PG gallery 192.

Wallace Award Winner in Christchurch

PG gallery 192

Christchurch

 

Andy Leleisi’uao
Homonoia People

 

21 August - 15 September 2017


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Still from Gregory Bennett's Nature Morte (2017) HD video, 13 minutes, 22 seconds, looped.

New Gregory Bennett Videos

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Gregory Bennett
Nature Morte

 

18 August-16 September 2017

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Michael Parekowhai, Chapman's Homer, 2011. Bronze, stainless steel. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett Gallery

Five “Significant” Works For Christchurch

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Five “Significant” Works of Art over Five years.

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Fu-On Chung and Sam Thomas, Swirling Dream-Wreck (2017).

The Problem of Parallel Practices

BLUE OYSTER GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Fu-On Chung & Sam Thomas
Swirling Dream Wreck

 

2 August - 26 August 2017

 


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Dirt Future

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

2017 new artists show
Dirt Future

 

4 August - 2 September 2017

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Koji Ryui's Echoer, as installed downstairs at Michael Lett.

Koji Ryui Exhibition

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Koji Ryui
Echoer

 

26 July - 26 August 2017

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Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide, installation view, City Gallery Wellington 2017. Photo: Shaun Waugh.

Conversing Now About McCahon

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Colin McCahon
On Going Out with the Tide

 

8 April - 30 July 2017


APW

Waiting For the God

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

John Pule
Ohi

 

3 August - 26 August 2017

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Tiger Murdoch, Great North Road, plywood.

2017 National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Selected finalists
National Contemporry Art Award


29 July - 5 November2017

John Ward Knox, Habits (ii), 2017, woolly mammoth ivory and paua shell, approx. length 5.5 cm & 3 cm each

Burning Out

ROBERT HEALD GALLERY

Wellington

 

John Ward Knox
Tauhou


8 June - 1 July 2017


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Josephine Cachemaille's 'Us, Us, Us' as installed at The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatu. Photo: John-Paul Pochin

Another look at ‘Us, Us, Us.’

THE SUTER ART GALLERY TE ARATOI O WHAKATU

Nelson

 

Josephine Cachemaille 
Us, Us, Us

 

June 10 - August 6 2017

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et al. & Samuel Holloway: Upright Piano, 2013, painted and modified piano, annotated score; et al., DE NIEUWE STEM 1-3, 2006, frame, metal box, light fittings, acrylic & oil stick on paper, mp3 paper, headphones, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery

Shout Whisper Wail

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

The 2017 Chartwell Show - a group exhibition

Shout Whisper Wail

20 May - 15 October 2017

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Cover of 'Nukuoro: Sculptures from Micronesia.' The subtitle is problematic, because Nukuoro is culturally a Polynesian island, even though it lies inside the borders of the Federated States of Micronesia.

Gods and Museums

Nukuoro: sculptures from Micronesia,
Edited by Christian Kaufmann and Oliver Wick,
Hirmer Publishers, 2013


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Billy Apple's Brown Room Subtraction as installed at Mokopōpaki.

Beyond the Brown Cube

MOKOPŌPAKI

Auckland


Billy Apple
Brown Room Substraction

 

2 August - 16 September 2017

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Josephine Cachemaille's 'Us, Us, Us' as installed at The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatu. Photo: John-Paul Pochin

Laid Back

THE SUTER ART GALLERY TE ARATOI O WHAKATU

Nelson

 

Josephine Cachemaille
Us, Us, Us

 

10 June - 06 August 2017

 

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Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days at City Gallery Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Teetering Hybrid Mongrel Furniture

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Martino Gamper
100 Chairs in 100 Days


8 April -13 August 2017