Artspace starts 2016’s programme with a significant reference to New Zealand's political history by celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Act.
From 1933–1953 a group of men and women remade the arts in this country from their Christchurch base. The movers and shakers included Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Ngaio Marsh, Douglas Lilburn, Rita Angus and Colin McCahon. Their talents and enthusiasms, and the rises and falls of this artistic group are the subject of this talk by Peter Simpson.
First performed at Auckland City Art Gallery in 1974, Bruce Barber’s Bucket Action, will be re-performed by artist Hannah Valentine in a one-off event as part of the opening weekend programme for Groundswell: Avant-garde Auckland: 1971–1979.
From the women who arrived on the first waka through waves of feminism to the song-bird Lorde, University of Otago historian Barbara Brookes applies a female lens to our past in her new book, A History of New Zealand Women.
From 1933–1953 a group of men and women remade the arts in this country from their Christchurch base. The movers and shakers included Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Ngaio Marsh, Douglas Lilburn, Rita Angus and Colin McCahon. Their talents and enthusiasms, and the rises and falls of this artistic group are the subject of this talk by Peter Simpson.
Singapore-based artist Oh Soon Hwa discusses her photographic series Quiet Dream which was set around a small island in the Mekong Delta nicknamed 'Taiwanese Island' where many young women have married foreigners such as Taiwanese or Korean men and left their homeland to get a better life.
Perhaps not the chamber music you’d expect to accompany Auckland Art Gallery’s latest exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence, the live entertainment for this series of Open Lates showcases the talents of some of the new Renaissance people in the local music scene.
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.
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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