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APW

Losing Her Marbles

Tiffany Jenkins

Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums … And Why They Should Stay There

368 pp

Oxford University Press, USA, 2016

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Moss and Drayton at The Physics Room

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Reuben Moss,
Monuments and Other Reminders

 

30 March - 30 April 2017

BJP

The Poetics of Mud

BLUE OYSTER GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Becky Richards
To watch, with your mind’s eye, the world floating quiet

 

5 - 29 April 2017


TH

The Body Laid Bare

Nude: Art from the Tate Collection

 

Emma Chambers and Justin Paton

 

Published by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2016

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Marie-Louise Ekman, On the toilet, 1971, 1000 x 700 mm

Marie-Louise Ekman in Auckland

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Biographies of Transition: Too Busy To Think

 

7 April - 12 May 2017

APW
The installation of Sydow: Tomorrow Never Knows at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Photo by John Collie.

Carl Sydow Sculptures and Drawings

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Carl Sydow
Sydow: Tomorrow Never Knows


25 March - 23 July 2017


JH
Johl Dwyer: Pixel 1.1, 2017; Pixel 7.7, 2017; Pixel 2.2, 2017.

Dwyer Paintings and Wall Reliefs

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Johl Dwyer
Virtually Virtual

 

4 April - 29 April 2017

SH
A visitor to Papakura Art Gallery examines the notebook in which Nikau Hindin has recorded her research into aute.

The Return of Aute

PAPAKURA ART GALLERY

Auckland

 

Nikau Hindin
Te Kiri o Tane

 

23 March - 28 April 2016

APW

The Culturalised Psychology of Shame

Bloomsbury Academic

Susan Best

 

Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography

London 2016


JH
Leigh Martin: Mass #10, 2016; Mass #9, 2016, all acrylic on Fabriano, all 1050 x 770 mm

Arm and Mark

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Nikolic, Tomescu, Martin, Topfer, Humphries
The Anatomy of Gesture

 

12 March - 15 April 2017

JH
Richard Bryant, Thaw, 2016, acrylic on fabric and twine, 640 x 670 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Richard Bryant’s Painted Woven Objects

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Bryant

The Wrenching Scale


22 March -15 April 2017

JH
Fergus Feehily, garden Lux, 2010, carboard box, oil and cloth on mdf, 285 x 235 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Painting As Object (Once More)

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Biltereyst, Darragh, Feehily, Foote, Mills, Ivanoff, Nixon, Pieters, Snow
Materialised


17 March - 22 April 2017


JH
Yuki Kihara, Der Papālagi at Fugalei Market, 2016, c-print, 860 x 1060 mm. Image courtesy of the artist and Milford Galleries, Dunedin.

Potentially Bristly

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY THREE

Auckland

 

Yuki Kihara
Der Papālagi (The White Man)

 

24 February - 31 March 2017

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Joseph Scott, Charisma (go into all the World), 2017, mixed media

Passing Foxes

SKINROOM

Hamilton

 

Joseph Scott

You are passing another fox

 

18 March - 31 March 2017

 

APW
David Shrigley, Drawings (gallery view), 2004-2014 at CoCA, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2017 © David Shrigley, Courtesy CoCA and British Council. Photo by Janneth Gil

Letting Mr. Shrigley Steal Your Mind

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOI MOROKI

Christchurch

 

David Shrigley
Lose Your Mind

 

11 March - 27 May 2017


HT
Exhibition view of Louise Bennett's 'Light Between Our Oceans.' Photography by Christo Crocker.

Louise Bennett’s Videos in Melbourne

BUS Projects

Melbourne

 

Louise Bennett
The Light Between our Oceans

 

15 February -11 March 2017

ES
Milk and Honey

The Exhibition Programme of the ‘New’ Suter

EyeContact Essay #19
JH
Nick Austin's Paleo Apartments exhibition as installed at Hopkinson Mossman.

Nick Austin and Diets

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Nick Austin
Paleo Apartments

 

10 March - 8 April 2017


MD
The Welcoming Party, 'Opening Ceremony' during the Trust Us Contemporary Art Trust Telethon, Friday 17 February, 2017, 12 noon – 12 midnight. Image courtesy of Enjoy Public Art Gallery.

Denny or not Denny?

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

 

Riff Raff
Trust Us Contemporary Art Trust Telethon

 

17 February 2017: 12 pm to midnight

PI

The Early Days of Bicultural School Education

BlairWakefield Productions

Luit Bieringa (director);Jan Bieringa (producer)

 

The heART of the matter


Wellington 2016

JH

Paul Cullen (1949-2017)

Paul Cullen, 1949 - 2017