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JH

Engrossing Allen Interviews

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Jim Allen
The Skin of Years: Interviews with Jim Allen by Phil Dadson and Tony Green

Clouds and Michael Lett, 2014

APW

Tall Poppies, Cultural Cringe, Catton and Culture

.

PI

Mr Who?

Mr Turner, a 2014 film by Mike Leigh, in general release.


JH
David Thomas, When Two Directions Become All Directions (L to R: Green Over Grey Yellow; Golden Yellow; Green; Black; Grey), 2012-14, acrylic on linen and dibond. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Painting and Pleasure

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Group show of paintings
The Smoothing of Things


30 January - 28 February 2015

SH
Salome Tanuvasa, Expensive Movements (2012), screenshot (hotel)

Lost in the Job

FRANKLIN ARTS CENTRE

Pukekohe

Group exhibition
Making Visible

8 November 2014 - 17 January 2015

JH
Noel Ivanoff's Slider Paintings upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Noel Ivanoff’s Dark Sliders

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Noel Ivanoff
Slider Paintings

 

30 January - 28 February 2015


MA
Yvonne Todd, Frenzy, 2006, light jet print, 1080 x 1350 mm

Amery on Todd

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Yvonne Todd
Creamy Psychology


6 December 2014 - 1 March 2015

JH
Tiffany Singh's Life is But a Vapour at Te Uru. Photo: Jennifer French.

Singh in Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Tiffany Singh

Life is But a Vapour

 

11 December 2014 - 15 February 2015

JH
Kathy Barry and Isobel Thom, Homeworld, in Gallery 5, top floor, Te Uru. Photo: Jennifer French

Thom and Barry at Te Uru

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titrangi

 

Kathy Barry and Isobel Thom
Homeworld

 

6 December 2014 - 4 February 2015


MD
Cover of the Critic's Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings

The Terms and Conditions: On Reading Wystan Curnow

ADAM ART GALLERY AND VUP

The Critic’s Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971-2013
Ed. Christina Barton & Robert Leonard, with Thomasin Sleigh


Published by Adam Art Gallery and VUP, 2014

CA
Koji Tatsuno / Autumn/Winter 1993–94 / Gift of Mr. Koji Tatsuno / Collection: Kyoto Costume Institute / Photograph: Taishi Hirokawa

Japanese Haute Couture

GALLERY OF MODERN ART

Brisbane

 

Contemporary garment design
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

 

1 November 2014 - 15 February 2015

APW

Why the Art World Shouldn’t Be Too Quick to Distance Itself from Charlie Hebdo and its Ilk.

EyeContact Essay #9


PI
Canon Hakaraia Pahewa, Untitled photograph, not dated

Collecting the Evidence

TAIRAWHITI MUSEUM

Gisborne

 

Canon Hakaraia Pahewa
Cameraman with a Mission


25 October 2014 - ongoing

EJ
Tessa Laird, "House of Bats", installation shot.  Photo courtesy of Kathryn Tsui.

Laird and Thomas at Corban’s

CORBAN ESTATE ARTS CENTRE

Auckland

Tessa Laird

House of Bats

Sam Thomas

Serf Club

5 Dec 2014 - 8 Jan 2015

JH
Wystan Curnow reading from The Art Hotel: as a Scene of Reading, at split/fountain as part of Untitled (set up). Photo courtesy of split/fountain and Asumi Mizuo.

Wystan Curnow’s Poetry

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

Auckland

 

Wystan Curnow
The Art Hotel: As a Scene for Reading

 

20 December, 3.30 pm

 


JH
Daniel Crooks, An Embroidery of Voids, (still) 2013, single channel video, high definition (HD), sound, 16:9, colour, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2014

Telescopically Structured Chartwell Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from the Chartwell Collection
A World Undone


8 November 2014 - 6 April 2015

pd
Johl Dwyer's Ever at Casbah Gallery

Dwyer in Hamilton

CASBAH GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Johl Dwyer
Ever

 


6 June - 20 June

JH
Shannon Te Ao and Iain Frengley, Untitled (After Rakaihautu) 2012, HD video

Other Waters’ Films

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Looped film screening programme

OTHER WATERS - The Manukau and Beyond


15 November - 24 December 2014 3 January - 15 February 2015


JH
Janine Randerson, Until It Runs Out, 2014, super 16 mm film transferred to HD video

Other Waters’ Gallery Displays

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Group show
OTHER WATERS - Art on the Manukau


15 November - 23 December 2014 3 January -15 February 2015

KL
Ana Iti's Golden Hour as installed at Room Four.

Ana Iti at Room Four

ROOM FOUR

Christchurch

 

Ana Iti
Golden Hour

 

5 December - 20 December 2014

PI
Photo by Julian Ward

Streetwise

Epial publications

Photographs by Julian Ward

 

Wellington Streets

 

Wellington, 2014