Join Curator Māori Art Nigel Borell as, through this exhibition, he explores a range of views about how time and history is navigated by artists in both subtle and explicit ways.
The Blue Angel is an unsparing account of a straight-laced, bourgeois schoolteacher, Professor Rath, and his obsession with Lola Lola, a cabaret dancer.
This is the incredible story of Gabriel García Márquez — 'Gabo' to all of Latin America — winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, author of the globally popular masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the most popular and perhaps best writer in Spanish since Cervantes.
Calling all artists with imaginations! Take up the challenge of the Mystery Cassoni. Cassoni are chests which families fill with treasures. Your challenge is to create an artwork using the special things in our chest. The Corsini Collection is itself like one big treasure chest filled with treasures the family have cared for over 600 years. Explore, experiment, design and create.
This is the incredible story of Gabriel García Márquez — 'Gabo' to all of Latin America — winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, author of the globally popular masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the most popular and perhaps best writer in Spanish since Cervantes.
Taking inspiration from Maria Nepomuceno’s vibrant artwork Grande Boca (Big Mouth) 2013 in Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America, participants will explore various materials and joining techniques to create ‘imaginary nature’.
Calling all artists with imaginations! Take up the challenge of the Mystery Cassoni. Cassoni are chests which families fill with treasures. Your challenge is to create an artwork using the special things in our chest. The Corsini Collection is itself like one big treasure chest filled with treasures the family have cared for over 600 years. Explore, experiment, design and create.
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 us for a short film screening to celebrate Matariki – Māori and indigenous films curated by Leo Koziol, director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival.
Join Assistant Curator Emma Jameson to look at the influence of classical mythology and the imagined past on Frederic Leighton’s illustrations for George Eliot’s novel Romola.
In 1884, the famous Uruguayan painter Juan Manuel Blanes is asked to create a portrait of national hero, José Artigas. There is only one drawing of him, done in his old age so Blanes must imagine what he looked like by researching to learn about his life.
Art Lovers’ Film presents Bauhaus Spirit, a documentary that celebrates the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus by exploring the history, present and future of the utopian design and architecture school
Enjoy a season of Māori and indigenous film across Tāmaki Makaurau, including Kia Ora Shorts, Te Reo Māori Film Day and kōrero with guest film makers. The programme is curated by Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipāka), director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival.
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.
Big Day Art: Calling the World provides an opportunity for families to experience Auckland Art Gallery and immerse themselves in a celebration of artistic experience and creativity. See, do, listen, move, make and share – become creative agents and explorers. Join us in celebrating Matariki and our New Zealand landscape and explore what it means to discover, journey and adventure through a series of hands-on activities and workshops.
Based on Jorodowsky’s life, the film blends his personal history with metaphor, mythology and poetry and reflects his philosophy that reality is not objective but rather a 'dance' created by our own imaginations.
Join authors Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins in conversation with Hirini Kaa as they explore the action-packed life of Tuai, who not only travelled across the world, but across cultures.
Taking inspiration from Maria Nepomuceno’s vibrant artwork Grande Boca (Big Mouth) 2013 in Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America, participants will explore various materials and joining techniques to create ‘imaginary nature’.
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![Mr. PRUDHOMME – Je ne sais pas si c'est un effet de mon imagination naturellement poétique, mais il me semble, qu'à peine sur les flots amers, mon cœur se barbouille ... et toujours par suite de ces mêmes caprices de la folle du logis, je croirais pouvoir jurer que je perds mon chapeau ..., c'est un effet bien singulier ..., bien singulier! ... [Mr. PRUDHOMME. – Not being sure whether it stems from my natural poetic power of imagination, but I hardly find myself on these deep waves and my stomach turns, and for the same reason I could have sworn that I lost my hat ... what a strange experience ... quite strange indeed!]](https://artgallery-collection.rfacdn.nz/records/images/large/13779/197890f787175d61b59ae528f5ebefdcddafcca8.jpg)
![Sauvage de la Nouvelle Zelande [Savage Man of New Zealand]](https://artgallery-collection.rfacdn.nz/records/images/large/16531/c0e927de837c0b6845db4cb5095bbfe99149ab8b.jpg)
