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Uncanny Country
Uncanny Country

Uncanny Country

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Window Work: Graham Fletcher
Window Work: Graham Fletcher

Free entry

Window Work: Graham Fletcher

Free entry

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Henry Fuseli: Dark Chambers of the Mind
Henry Fuseli: Dark Chambers of the Mind

Free entry

Henry Fuseli: Dark Chambers of the Mind

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Goya: Folly and War
Goya: Folly and War

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Goya: Folly and War

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Max Gimblett: The Brush of All Things
Max Gimblett: The Brush of All Things

$5 - $7

Max Gimblett: The Brush of All Things

$5 - $7

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Towards Auckland: Colin McCahon the Gallery Years
Towards Auckland: Colin McCahon the Gallery Years

Free entry

Towards Auckland: Colin McCahon the Gallery Years

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All That Was Solid Melts
All That Was Solid Melts

FREE

All That Was Solid Melts

FREE

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The Walters Prize 2006
The Walters Prize 2006

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The Walters Prize 2006

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Mystic Truths
Mystic Truths

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Mystic Truths

Free entry

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Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America
Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America

$10 – $15, Members and Children 12 and under FREE

Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America

$10 – $15, Members and Children 12 and under FREE

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Emma Jameson: Fatal Attraction
Emma Jameson: Fatal Attraction

12pm

Exhibition entry fee applies

Assistant Curator Emma Jameson discusses the Victorian period’s fear and fascination of sexuality and how the naked female figure was clothed in various guises to satisfy both social decorum and latent desire.

Emma Jameson: Fatal Attraction

12pm

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Emma Jameson: Fatal Attraction *CANCELLED*
Emma Jameson: Fatal Attraction *CANCELLED*

1pm

Exhibition entry fee applies

Assistant Curator Emma Jameson discusses the Victorian period’s fear and fascination of sexuality and how the naked female figure was clothed in various guises to satisfy both social decorum and latent desire.

Emma Jameson: Fatal Attraction *CANCELLED*

1pm

Exhibition entry fee applies

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Latin America and Spain Film Festival: To Kill a Man (2014)
Latin America and Spain Film Festival: To Kill a Man (2014)

5:30pm

Free

Jorge is a tranquil, middle-class family man whose neighbourhood has become overrun by a group of thugs. As Jorge's family suffers from fear and humiliating anguish, he is cornered into defending what is his.
 

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Cidade de Deus (City of God) 2002
Cidade de Deus (City of God) 2002

12pm

Free

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.

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Apocalypse: World War I (Parts 1 and 2)
Apocalypse: World War I (Parts 1 and 2)

1pm

Free

Drawing from over 500 hours of archival footage, much of it previously unseen, Apocalypse: WWI traces the journeys of civilians and soldiers who fought for survival in one of the darkest times in history.

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La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) 2009
La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) 2009

1pm

Free

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the 'Milk of Sorrow', which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped in times of terrorism in Peru during or soon after pregnancy. 

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Manpower Lectures – #2 Ancient Greek Male Identity and the Modern World
Manpower Lectures – #2 Ancient Greek Male Identity and the Modern World

6—7pm

Members $100, Non-Members $190, Students $80 Book now

Drawing on heroes of classical mythology, the Iliad, Greek tragedy and their modern adaptations, Dr Anastasia Bakogianni explores what it meant to be a man in the ancient Greek world. Researching expectations placed upon men and the warrior ethos, she tracks its impact throughout the centuries and on the modern concept of masculinity.  This lecture is the second in a four-part series, Manpower Lectures: Antiquity, aesthetes and athleticism.

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Doc Edge Pride presents: From Bagdad to The Bay
Doc Edge Pride presents: From Bagdad to The Bay

2.30pm

$12 + fee Gallery Members, $14 + fee non-Members Buy tickets

An Iraqi translator for the U.S. military is wrongfully accused of being a double agent, and over the course of his interrogation by the military, his culturally forbidden sexuality comes to light. 

Doc Edge Pride presents: From Bagdad to The Bay

2.30pm

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Doc Edge Pride presents: From Bagdad to The Bay
Doc Edge Pride presents: From Bagdad to The Bay

11am

$12 + fee Gallery Members, $14 + fee non-Members Buy tickets

An Iraqi translator for the U.S. military is wrongfully accused of being a double agent, and over the course of his interrogation by the military, his culturally forbidden sexuality comes to light. 

Doc Edge Pride presents: From Bagdad to The Bay

11am

$12 + fee Gallery Members, $14 + fee non-Members Buy tickets

Artworks

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Por tremor no pierdas honor. (Do Not Lose Honour Through Fear).
Por tremor no pierdas honor. (Do Not Lose Honour Through Fear).

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

Production date
circa 1816
Medium
etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint
Size (h x w)
220 x 317 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1984
Accession no
1984/43/2
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Desjarrete de la canallo con lanzas, medias-lunas, banderillas y otras armas. (The Rabble Hamstring the Bull with Lances, Sickles, Banderillas and other Arms).
Desjarrete de la canallo con lanzas, medias-lunas, banderillas y otras armas. (T...

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

Production date
1815-1816
Medium
etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint
Size (h x w)
250 x 352 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1960
Accession no
1960/16/2
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How is the hammer broken
How is the hammer broken

Colin McCahon

Production date
1961
Medium
oil (alkyd) on hardboard
Size (h x w)
1218 x 905 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 1981
Accession no
1981/11
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La Tentation de St Antoine (The Temptation of Saint Anthony)
La Tentation de St Antoine (The Temptation of Saint Anthony)

Jacques Callot

Production date
1634
Medium
etching with engraving
Size (h x w)
360 x 467 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1957
Accession no
1957/31/3
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The Fear of Not Getting It
The Fear of Not Getting It

Harvey Benge

Production date
2010
Medium
soft cover photo book in a plastic bag holding all 4 books in the series
Size (h x w)
225 x 158 x 3 mm
Credit line
Harvey Benge Photobooks, E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Harvey Benge, 2015
Accession no
RC2015/2/3/5.3
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Sam
Sam

Richard Lewer

Production date
2017
Medium
lithograph
Size (h x w)
565 x 460 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist and {Suite} Gallery, 2020
Accession no
2020/12/8
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Escarmouche dans un cirque
Escarmouche dans un cirque

Jacques Callot

Production date
1621
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
50 x 75 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/2/74
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La fete des saints Innocents
La fete des saints Innocents

Jacques Callot

Production date
1630s
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
216 x 125 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/2/709
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Edith in a straw hat
Edith in a straw hat

M T Woollaston

Production date
1973
Medium
oil on board
Size (h x w)
910 x 690 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1985
Accession no
1985/37
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Two figures
Two figures

Hans Feibusch

Production date
Unknown
Medium
colour lithograph
Size (h x w)
512 x 353 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Rex Nan Kivell, 1953
Accession no
1953/2/58
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Cormar attacking the spirit of the water
Cormar attacking the spirit of the water

Alexander Runciman

Production date
1751-1785
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
75 x 128 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Accession no
M1885/16/1
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The Wreck of a transport ship
The Wreck of a transport ship

James Pyne Joseph Mallord William Turner

Production date
circa 1849
Medium
oil on canvas
Size (h x w)
988 x 1169 x 80 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1956
Accession no
M1956/1
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A Woman standing, seen from the back, drawing a curtain aside
A Woman standing, seen from the back, drawing a curtain aside

Henry Fuseli

On display

Production date
circa 1795-circa 1800
Medium
Pencil, pen, wash and body colour
Size (h x w)
307 x 173 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1965
Accession no
1965/55
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The Death of Prince Leopold of Brunswick
The Death of Prince Leopold of Brunswick

Thomas Gaugain James Northcote

Production date
1796
Medium
stipple engraving, hand-coloured
Size (h x w)
555 x 711 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Accession no
U/90
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St Benedict Exorcising a Demon
St Benedict Exorcising a Demon

Simone Cantarini Lodovico Carracci

Production date
1630-1648
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
402 x 275 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Mr G M Mitford, 1883
Accession no
1883/1/47
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Ram Mount
Ram Mount

Peter Madden

Production date
2004
Medium
found object & found images
Size (h x w)
300 x 250 x 200 mm
Credit line
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2004
Accession no
C2004/1/27/2
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The Plague
The Plague

Hans Feibusch

Production date
Unknown
Medium
colour lithograph
Size (h x w)
523 x 436 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Rex Nan Kivell, 1953
Accession no
1953/2/59
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Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand
Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand

Louis John Steele Charles F Goldie

Production date
1899
Medium
oil on canvas
Size (h x w)
1758 x 2825 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the late George and Helen Boyd, 1899
Accession no
1899/2/2
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Portraits of the officers and men preserved from the Centaure
Portraits of the officers and men preserved from the Centaure

Thomas Gaugain James Northcote

Production date
1796
Medium
hand-coloured stipple engraving
Size (h x w)
559 x 711 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Accession no
U/91
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The Vision of God
The Vision of God

William Blake

Production date
1825
Medium
engraving
Size (h x w)
215 x 157 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1980
Accession no
1980/10/17
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The Resurrection
The Resurrection

Hieronymus Wierix Pieter van der Borcht

Production date
1583
Medium
engraving
Size (h x w)
114 x 73 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Accession no
M1885/86/59
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Tent of Darius
Tent of Darius

Simon Gribelin

Production date
1693
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
280 x 364 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Ann Andrews and Robert Newton, 2017
Accession no
2017/38/1
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Arcangelo I
Arcangelo I

Berlinde de Bruyckere

Production date
2020
Medium
wax, animal hair, wood, iron, concrete, epoxy
Size (h x w)
1960 x 610 x 550 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased with assistance from the M A Serra Trust and International Ambassadors, 2021. Image courtesy of Studio Berinde DeBruyckere, photographer Mirjan Devriendt.
Accession no
2020/22
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The First Christmas Dawn
The First Christmas Dawn

Albert Goodwin

Production date
1894
Medium
oil on canvas
Size (h x w)
1235 x 2015 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Artist, 1925
Accession no
1925/2
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Harvey Benge Photobooks
Harvey Benge Photobooks
Production date
1993-2020
Credit line
E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Harvey Benge, 2015
Accession no
RC2015/2

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