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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

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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


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Canon Hakaraia Pahewa, Untitled photograph, not dated

Collecting the Evidence

TAIRAWHITI MUSEUM

Gisborne

 

Canon Hakaraia Pahewa
Cameraman with a Mission


25 October 2014 - ongoing

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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

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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

 


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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

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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


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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

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Photo by Julian Ward

Streetwise

Epial publications

Photographs by Julian Ward

 

Wellington Streets

 

Wellington, 2014


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Caryline Boreham, Archives New Zealand

Boreham’s Spatial Interiors

Te Tuhi Billboards

Pakuranga

 

Caryline Boreham

State Space


15 November 2014 - 15 February 2015

JH
Matt Henry, Structural Relief (Te Tuhi), 2014, acrylic on canvas, pine, MDF, 2615 x 5035 mm - courtesy of Starkwhite, commissioned by Te Tuhi

Matt Henry in Te Tuhi

Te Tuhi's Drawing Wall

Pakuranga

 

Matt Henry

Structural Relief (Te Tuhi)

 

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

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On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination, curated by Adnan Yildiz, at Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

New Artspace Director Introduces Himself

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

Evolving international group show

On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination

5 - 19 December 2014  19 January - 28 February 2015


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Corson-Scott at Clark

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Chris Corson-Scott
New Photographs

 

3 December 2014 - 16 January 2015

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Seung Yul Oh, SOOM, 2014, commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2014, supported by the Chartwell Trust. Photo: Jennifer French

Seung Yul Oh’s Inflatable Bubbles

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Seung Yul Oh
SOOM

 

29 November 2014 - 11 October 2015

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Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere, Whale/Bone 1997, Bill Culbert, Ralph Hotere, paint, wood and fluorescent tubes. Courtesy Bill Culbert, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland and the Hotere Foundation Trust.  Photo: Kevin Dornauf

Hotere and Culbert Hit Hamilton

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Bill Culbert / Ralph Hotere
HOTERE CULBERT

 

22 November, 2014 - March 1, 2015.


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Jeena Shin: Motus I; Motus III; Motus IV - all acrylic on canvas, 2400 x 1800 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Four Large Shin Paintings and a Room

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Jeena Shin
Motus

 

15 December - 23 December 2014

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Installation of the Portage Ceramic Awards 2014 at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Cubism in Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Mitchell & Stout


The Te Uru building

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Peter Roche, Museum Piece, 1993, Framing the Museum in Ngā Toi │ Arts Te Papa, 22 August 2014 - 01 March 2015, photographs, clocks, wall text. Purchased 1993 (1993-0040-2). Image Courtesy of Te Papa.

Looking at Te Papa’s Collecting

TE PAPA TONGAREWA MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND

Wellington

 

Collection presentations

Nga Toi / Arts Te Papa

 

22 August 2014 - 1 March 2015