Participants in this workshop will use air-dry clay to create a series keepsakes, trinkets or small objects related to important elements, items and people that they wish to carry with them when they travel.
Participants in this workshop will use air-dry clay to create a series keepsakes, trinkets or small objects related to important elements, items and people that they wish to carry with them when they travel.
Learn more about Gottfried Lindauer’s painting technique from Principal Conservator Sarah Hillary. Her talk considers to what extent the artist relied on photography and how knowledge of technique can help in authentication. Sarah will compare the artist’s work with the other famous painter of Māori, CF Goldie, and discuss what has been gained from the examination of Lindauer forgeries.
In this fast-paced, action-based workshop for 5 year olds we will look at artwork in the contemporary painting show Necessary Distraction and take ourselves on a tour of the many ways we can paint.
Join Dr Xuelin Zhou (Senior Lecturer, School of Film, Television and Media Studies, University of Auckland) for an illustrated lecture on the representation of women in Chinese film.
Join us and International keynote speaker Jeanne van Heeswijk for a day of discussions about the changing connections between art and its publics
Co-organised by Auckland Art Gallery and AUT University School of Art and Design
Find out from Context Architects how they transformed five sad, drab and leaky 1980's town houses into ultra modern high-performance eco-homes that sold for up to $1.61 million at The Block NZ auction. Hear from architect, Scott Cracknell, and sustainability consultant, Alan Haywood about their experiences at Meadowbank and how you can make your home warmer and healthier.
Unemployed Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. His wife, Maria (Lianella Carell), sells the family's bed linens to retrieve Antonio's bicycle from the pawnshop so he can take the job. However, disaster strikes when Antonio's bicycle is stolen, and his new job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his lively son, Bruno (Enzo Staiola), Antonio combs the city, growing increasingly desperate for justice.
In this fast-paced, action-based workshop for 5 year olds we will look at artwork in the contemporary painting show Necessary Distraction and take ourselves on a tour of the many ways we can paint.
Guitar virtuoso Nigel Gavin and violin legend Richard Adams come together for an evening of artistic adventures and eclectic music they have played and sung around the world over the past years.
The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, are a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20.
Inspired by the visit of Pope John Paul II to Uruguay in 1988, The Pope’s Toilet cloaks religious critique in the scrappy tempo of irremediable poverty and irrepressible enterprise.
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