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New Shane Cotton Book

The Hanging Sky: Shane Cotton
Editor: Justin Paton

Essays by Justin Paton, Robert Leonard, Eliot Weinberger, Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow
Design: Aaron Beehre.

Published by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, 2013

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Martin Boyce: Of Kisses, 2009, Jesmonite and steel, 2250 x 1600 mm; Untitled 2008, steel, cotton, 2200 x 1300 x 70 mm. (Installation view).

A Milgrom Collection Sampler

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

From the Naomi Milgrom Collection
A Puppet, a Pauper, a Pirate, a Poet, a Pawn and a King


31 August 2013 - 27 January 2014

JH
Michael Stevenson, Proof of the Devil, 2008-2013, HD projection 25' 38 " (loop) Spanish with English subtitles; 4 channel sound installation 10' loop: steel, wood, paper, rock, plastic, electrical and electronic components, dimensions variable

Stevenson at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Michael Stevenson
Proof of the Devil

 

23 August - 28 September 2013


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Mark Braunais' Old School at Ilam Campus Gallery. Photo: Kezia Fairbrother

Ilam as Old School

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Mark Braunias
Old School

 

4 September - 27 September 2013

JH
Blue Guts by Mark Braunias and Jill Kennedy, at the Film Archive: Egg Head, 2013, animation; Shit Face, 2013, animation

Braunias – Kennedy Collaboration

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Mark Braunias & Jill Kennedy
Blue Guts

 

3 September - 11 October

APW
Supply + Demand at The Physics Room, featuring Robert Hood's When the mountains bow down and become valleys (2013). Amy Howden-Chapman ‘s What Depressions Look Like (2013) is on the right. Photo: Daegan Wells

The Dark Arts of Capitalist Economics

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Bennewith, Hood, Howden-Chapman, Kirschner & Panos, Paton
Supply + Demand

 

31 August - 6 October


JH
Nick Austin, Shark Envelope, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 970 x 1940 mm

Terror in the Letterbox

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Nick Austin
Total Dread

 

7 August - 6 September 2013

JH
Greg Semu, Battle of the Noble Savage, Illford galerie, gold fibre silk, 350gsm 1000 x 1000mm, ©Musée Quai Branly & Greg Semu 2007

Greg Semu’s Battling ‘Noble Savages’

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Greg Semu
Battle of the Noble Savage

 

23 August - 28 September 2013

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Zena Elliott, Familar Spaces: Diptych, 2012, acrylic on canvas. Photo by Aisha Roberts

Testing Notions of Identity

GALLAGHER ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Zena Elliot
Glokool


16 August - 11 October 2013


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Ann Shelton: Samuel Butler. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames, from A Library; Rhodophyta, A view across the Rangitata River Valley to Erewhon Station, from Mesopotamia Station, Te Wai Pounamu, Aotearoa, New Zealand 2013.

Australasian New Media in Dunedin

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Australian and NZ artists
Among the Machines

 

6 July - 3 November 2013

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Oscar Enberg, Boothseat for Pukahontas, two pot automotive paint, fibreglass, permanent marker, powder-coated and chrome plated aluminium, leather, hand blown glass, rose plant, 3D printed plastic and brass spoon, 1200 x 600 x 510 mm

Unusual Synthesis

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Oscar Enberg
The Pynchons S01E01

 

15 August - 31 August 2013

JH
Installation of The Other Place at Allpress Gallery

Eight Elam Graduates

ALLPRESS GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group show
The Other Place


7 August - 23 August 2013

 


WG
Installation image of Through The Interface and Over Time.

From Binary Code to Rock Painting

DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM

Berlin

 

Nicky Broekhuysen
Potency Filled Things

 

21 June - 3 August 2013

JH
Mladen Bizumic's Kodachrome Presents on the Edmiston North Scuplture Terrace of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Bizumic on the Terrace

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Mladen Bizumic
Kodachrome Presents


10 August 2013 - 6 April 2014

WG
Bogusław Schaeffer, PR – I VIII 1972, drawing on paper Courtesy of the collection of Muzeum Sztuki, Łodź 6.

Eastern European Experimentation

CALVERT 22

London

 

Group Show
Sounding the Body Electric

 

26 June - 25 August 2013


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Dieneke Jansen, Morrison Drive, Hobsonville, 23 November, 2012. Image supplied by Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato

Hamilton’s National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Group exhibition
2013 National Contemporary Art Award

 

17 August - 10 November

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Bronwynne Cornish, Fox, High-fired red earthenware with white and coloured slips

Cornish & Dodd

THE NATIONAL

Christchurch

 

Bronwynne Cornish and Jane Dodd
Tooth and Claw

 

30 July - 17 August 2013

JH
Manon de Boer, One, two, many, 2012, 16 mm film transferred to HD video, 16:9, 21 mins, 38 secs.  Installed at Artspace. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Before and During Speech

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Hsu, de Boer, Cooper, Nashashibi, Jannides
Hermes’ Lack of Words


26 July - 31 August 2013


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Joe Sheehan, The Quick and the Dead, 2013, detail, greywacke, basalt, argillite. Photo: Kallan MacLeod

Sci-Fi Sheehan

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Joe Sheehan
The Quick and the Dead

 

30 July - 24 August 2013

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Mary Ann DeWeese, Swimsuit, 1961

Californian Design

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Assorted designers

Californian Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way

 

6 July - 29 September 2013

APW
Janet Lilo, Hit me with your best shot, at The Physics Room

Janet Lilo at The Physics Room

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Janet Lilo
Hit me with your best shot

 

26 July - 25 August 2013