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Lovers as installed at Starkwhite. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Martin Basher as Curator

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Group exhibition

Lovers

 

6 February - 6 March 2014

PI
Les Cleveland, Lake Tennyson, c.1960

Les Cleveland

JH
Shane Cotton, The Haymaker Series, I -V, 2012, at Michael Lett

Cotton in Auckland

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Shane Cotton

 

29 January - 1 March 2014


KC

Sehgal in Sydney

ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Sydney

 

Tino Sehgal
This is so contemporary

 

6 February - 23 February 2014

MP
William Eggleston,  UNTITLED (PEACHES!)  1971  © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York.

South of No North

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Laurence Aberhart, William Eggleston, Noel McKenna
South of No North

 

14 December 2013 - 9 March 2014

WG
Andy Warhol, Jerry Hall Reclining on Couch, 1976–1987, Six silver gelatin prints stitched with thread, 80 x 69 cm © 2014 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London Courtesy Bischofberger

Photos by Warhol, Burroughs & Lynch

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY

London

 

Andy Warhol /William S. Burroughs /David Lynch

 

30 January -17 March 2014


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Installation of The day is a fume in The Physics Room. Photo: Daegan Wells

Excavations and Entanglements

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Five artists 
The day is a fume


1 February - 2 March 2014

DW
Sam Thomas at PLAZA: DGZ4; Reception; DGZ1; DGZ2; DGZ3 - paintings oil on aluminium with stone frames and chains

Build Quality

PLAZA

Auckland

 

Sam Thomas
New Gallery Models: Assured Quality - Discreet Service

 

22 January - 22 February 2014

JH
Oscar Enberg, Thomas Pynchon as 'The Sponsor', 2013 american ash, walnut, sterling silver, oil paint on cast aluminum, chrome, nickel, brass and copper plated steel, cuttlefish wreath 1300 x 1160 x 800mm approx. overall

The Pynchons: Episode Two

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Oscar Enberg
The Pynchons S01E02: Slouching Towards Dignity

 

31 January - 1 March 2014


MD
Xin Cheng and Kirsten Dryburgh, Gleaners' Garden, 2014.  Installation detail. Image courtesy of Mark Wilson and Enjoy.

What I Could Glean from It

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

Xin Cheng and Kirsten Dryburgh


Gleaners’ Garden

 

22 January 22 - 15 February 2014

 

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Failed Utopias and Curatorial Laziness

EyeContact Essay #7

PI
Wayne Barrar, Falling Water at Waihopai River Dam Structure Marlborough, 2012

Time After Time

McNAMARA GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Ben Cauchi, Dan Estabrook and Wayne Barrar

Seasoned: contemporary salt prints

 

6 December 2013 - 24 January 2014.


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Hannah Höch, Staatshäupter (Heads of State), Collage photomontage, 16.2 x 23.3 cm. Collection of IFA, Stuttgart

Hannah Höch in London

WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

London

 

Hannah Höch

 

15 January - 23 March 2014

RS
Ann Shelton's doublethink at Midhurst.

Ann Shelton’s Roadside Exhibition

Govett-Brewster display at Midhurst

Taranaki

 

Ann Shelton
doublethink

 

28 September 2013 - 2 February 2014

JH
transmissionspace: David Clegg projects 2006-2012 - the cover

David Clegg Publication

Transmissionspace: David Clegg projects 2006-12

 

Essays by Huddleston, Burke and Kreisler

 

Pub. by St. Paul St Gallery, AUT, and Dunedin Public Art Gallery


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David Woodings, Still Life #89 for Huia, oil on wood panel, 61 x 91 cm

Woodings on the Christchchurch Earthquake

ARTSPOST

Hamilton

 

David Woodings
After the Shaking Stops


17 January - 17 February 2014

MP
Cover of We Will Work With You: Wellington Media Collective 1978-98

Activist Postermakers Publication

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington Media Collective

We Will Work With You: Wellington Media Collective 1978-1998
Ed. by Mark Derby, Jenny Rouse and Ian Wedde


Victoria University Press, 2013

SVG
Mike Hewson, Norwich Building, 2013

If Only All Retrospectives were this Optimistic

BLUE OYSTER GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Mike Hewson
Stud Flight - A Retrospective of New Work 2010-2013

 

26 November - 20 December 2013


JH
Ann Shelton's doublethink installation at Midhurst

Two Shelton publications

Ann Shelton: doublethink
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, September 2013

Ann Shelton: The City of Gold and Lead
Sarjeant Art Gallery, July 2013

 

Both resulting from her Tylee Cottage residency in Whanganui

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John Vea, installation of 29.09.2009 Tribute to Samoa, American Samoa & Tonga, 2013, and Import/Export, 2013 at Papakura Art Gallery

Planting plaster: John Vea and the art of migrant labour

PAPAKURA ART GALLERY

Papakura

 

John Vea
Homage to the Hoi Polloi

 

26 October - 8 December 2013

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Milton Springsteen's Bogan Creek

Street Art Extravaganza

Canterbury Museum and various inner city locations

Christchurch

 

Local and international street artists
Rise Festival

 

20 December 2013 - 23 March 2014