We love our homes, but what do we know about their heritage? The New Zealand Home, a popular TV One series, sees architect Ken Crosson guide radio sports host Goran Paladin through whare, state housing, and sophisticated and significant homes. During this special talk, Ken and Goran will describe what they learned as they travelled through New Zealand, and draw on their knowledge of New Zealand’s housing history to provide insights into where they believe the future of residential architecture in New Zealand might lie.
In order to pay the mortgage, Fortunato and his wife turn their house by the beach into a hotel. But a bitter woman from Fortunato's past returns to destroy his plans and scare off his hotel guests.
This 2016 social history made by the BBC charts the story of groundbreaking feminist publishing house Virago Press which in 1973, in the days when publishing was a gentleman’s club, launched to publish new and neglected work by women writers who wanted to change the world.
In a poor neighbourhood in Cuba, 1958, a former clown Iluminada Pacheco, wins a new house in a local sweepstakes. Overwhelmed by this stroke of luck, Iluminada gives away most of her belongings but months later her life takes a less fortunate turn.
Join artist-printmaker Struan Hamilton for an in-house demonstration using a traditional etching press on the printmaking methods used by artists such as Rembrandt, Redon, Goya, and Delacroix who feature in the exhibition A night without stars: the interior worlds of Redon and The Romantics.
Let celebrated writer and curator Justin Paton take you on a visual journey through the landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, as Colin McCahon loved and painted it. With this talk, we celebrate Paton’s landmark new book McCahon Country, published in association with Penguin Random House on the 100th anniversary of McCahon's birth.
Romancing the Collection is a brand new hang of some of the star works in your art collection, housed at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. It’s a chance to fall in love all over again with old favourites, or acquaint yourself with some new ones.
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.
Join us for a panel discussion around the opportunities and concerns for New Zealand women artists in the 21st century inspired by the work of Anne McCahon.
The latest recipient of the New Zealand Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal, Stuart Gardyne, will presents an after hours talk at the Gallery about his work.
$12.50 Members and Members guests*, $25 non-Members, *In combination with a valid guest pass only Buy tickets
Join us for a series of film screenings about the fascinating fashion industry introduced by fashion expert Angela Lassig, who puts modern-day haute couture and street apparel into historic perspective.
Join writer, editor, critic, curator and former academic, Peter Simpson for his insight into the work produced by Colin McCahon on his arrival in Auckland in 1953.
Skadi Heckmueller, author of Private: A guide to personal art collections in Australia and New Zealand, will reveal some of Australasia’s most intriguing private contemporary art collections.
Auckland Art Gallery, in partnership with Alliance Française Auckland, is pleased to offer you free animated short film screenings, for children and adults, over the September school holidays.
Interdisciplinary artist Frances Libeau (they/she; fka Claire Duncan) works at the intersection of sonic composition, text and performance with an interest in queer remediations of narrative and technologies. Their composition, sound design, writing and performance works have been commissioned by artists and organisations across fields of music, fine art, film, theatre and dance.
Auckland Art Gallery, in partnership with Alliance Française Auckland, is pleased to offer you free animated short film screenings, for children and adults, over the September school holidays.
Join artist Sorawit Songsataya, in conversation with Gallery curator, contemporary art, Natasha Conland, as they discuss Sorawit’s new commission, The Interior, opening on 23 Nov on the Gallery’s North Sculpture Terrace.
Last year while based in Athens for documenta 14, Laura Preston began a conversation with Wystan Curnow about the relationship of art and place. In Auckland, they continue this discussion by reviewing a number of recent exhibitions, both in Europe and in Aotearoa New Zealand, to consider the importance of art criticism and the issues of writing about art.
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