Exhibitions

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Louise Henderson: A Life in Archives
Louise Henderson: A Life in Archives

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Louise Henderson: A Life in Archives

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Inside Outside Upside Down: Five Contemporary New Zealand Artists
Inside Outside Upside Down: Five Contemporary New Zealand Artists

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Events

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SOLD OUT | Tour the City with fashion expert Doris de Pont #3
SOLD OUT | Tour the City with fashion expert Doris de Pont #3

11am – 12pm

FREE

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Curator kōrero with Sophie Matthiesson
Curator kōrero with Sophie Matthiesson

2 - 2.45pm

Free - bookings essential Book now

Curator kōrero with Sophie Matthiesson

2 - 2.45pm

Free - bookings essential Book now

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Get Quantified with Gee Pikinga and Evie Kemp
Get Quantified with Gee Pikinga and Evie Kemp

6-7pm

FREE

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Make Fashionable Badges with artist Vanessa Fong
Make Fashionable Badges with artist Vanessa Fong

— 11am – 2pm

FREE

Make Fashionable Badges with artist Vanessa Fong

— 11am – 2pm

FREE

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SOLD OUT | Screen printing workshop with Hayley Pearce from The Art Room Limited | 22 Jan
SOLD OUT | Screen printing workshop with Hayley Pearce from The Art Room Limited...

1-3pm

$75 Book now

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Make your own paper doll with artist Toni Mosley
Make your own paper doll with artist Toni Mosley

— 11am – 2pm

FREE

Make your own paper doll with artist Toni Mosley

— 11am – 2pm

FREE

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SOLD OUT | Screen printing workshop with Hayley Pearce from The Art Room Limited | 29 Jan
SOLD OUT | Screen printing workshop with Hayley Pearce from The Art Room Limited...

10am-12pm

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Get crafty with artists Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole
Get crafty with artists Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole

— 11am – 2pm

FREE

Get crafty with artists Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole

— 11am – 2pm

FREE

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SOLD OUT | Tour the City with fashion expert Doris de Pont #2
SOLD OUT | Tour the City with fashion expert Doris de Pont #2

11am – 12pm

FREE

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Meet icons of the 1960’s
Meet icons of the 1960’s

2-3.30pm

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SOLD OUT | Tour the City with fashion expert Doris de Pont #1
SOLD OUT | Tour the City with fashion expert Doris de Pont #1

11am – 12pm

FREE

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Drop in Drawing – '60s style
Drop in Drawing – '60s style

6:30–8pm

FREE

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CANCELLED | Evie Kemp and Havilah Arendse in conversation followed by a fashion show of Havilah Label
CANCELLED | Evie Kemp and Havilah Arendse in conversation followed by a fashion...

6-7.30pm

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Drop in Drawing – '60s style
Drop in Drawing – '60s style

6:30–8pm

FREE

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Post Fossil Fashion Practices
Post Fossil Fashion Practices

— Sat & Sun 11am – 3pm

FREE

Post Fossil Fashion Practices

— Sat & Sun 11am – 3pm

FREE

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Kintsugi workshop - March
Kintsugi workshop - March

10.30am–1.30pm

Members $135, Non-Members $190 (includes a Membership) Book now

Kintsugi (or Kintsukuroi) is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects. Loosely translating to ‘golden joinery’, kintsugi values breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, using lacquer and powdered metal to make visible repairs.

Kintsugi workshop - March

10.30am–1.30pm

Members $135, Non-Members $190 (includes a Membership) Book now

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Hīkoi toiora | Sat 18 & Sun 19
Hīkoi toiora | Sat 18 & Sun 19

— 2pm

$25/$22.50 (Members) Under 12s free with accompanying adult Buy tickets

Hīkoi toiora | Sat 18 & Sun 19

— 2pm

$25/$22.50 (Members) Under 12s free with accompanying adult Buy tickets

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Mary Quant closing event
Mary Quant closing event

9.45am - 2.45pm

Free - bookings essential

Mary Quant closing event

9.45am - 2.45pm

Free - bookings essential

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Swinging Sixties in Auckland - How Quant Sparked Our Boutique Culture
Swinging Sixties in Auckland - How Quant Sparked Our Boutique Culture

6—7pm

Members $14, Non-Members $20 Book now

Swinging Sixties in Auckland - how Quant sparked our boutique culture.

In this talk, fashion historian Angela Lassig will chart the rise of boutique culture in the back streets and side alleys of 60s Auckland, exploring the fashion, music and makeup that energised a generation.  

Swinging Sixties in Auckland - How Quant Sparked Our Boutique Culture

6—7pm

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Manpower Lectures – #1 Why Oscar Wilde Mattered in Auckland
Manpower Lectures – #1 Why Oscar Wilde Mattered in Auckland

6—7pm

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

Senior Curator of International Art, Dr Sophie Matthiesson explores some of the motivations behind the collecting and public display of male bodies in the early years of the Auckland Art Gallery (founded 1888) and considers the appeal and meaning of such frankly sensual images for their Victorian-era benefactors who purchased them. The notorious 1895 London trial and imprisonment of Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde for homosexuality suddenly altered consciousness across the British Empire. It impacts can be seen, she argues, in public debates about masculinity in New Zealand, and in institutional attitudes to the male nude in art in the following decades.

This lecture is the first in a four-part series, Manpower Lectures: Antiquity, aesthetes and athleticism.

Manpower Lectures – #1 Why Oscar Wilde Mattered in Auckland

6—7pm

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Swinging Sixties: Double Feature
Swinging Sixties: Double Feature

3.15—8.30pm

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What better way to celebrate the exhibition Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary than two iconic, groovy, cinematic classics that will transport you back to the swinging sixties!

Alongside a fully stocked bar, you can catch A Hard Day’s Night – a 1964 rock-and-roll romp following "a day in the life" of The Beatles as fame takes them by storm – and mystery thriller Blow-Up, by critically acclaimed director Michelangelo Antonioni, wherein a bored mod-photographer discovers he’s unknowingly captured a crime scene on film. This event will be located at The Hollywood in Avondale, New Zealand’s longest-running cinema palace.

Swinging Sixties: Double Feature

3.15—8.30pm

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Manpower Lectures – #4 Queer and Now (online)
Manpower Lectures – #4 Queer and Now (online)

6—7pm

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

What's queer about long-nineteenth-century British art now? Answering this question, Edwards address two entirely different examples: Henry Hugh Armstead’s mid-Victorian bronze statuette ‘Satan dismayed’ otherwise known as ‘Saint Michael and the Serpent’ (1852) and Henry Scott Tuke’s 1924 oil painting, ‘Companions’. Both artists remain marginalised, and have proven difficult to canonise for different reasons: Armstead as a predominantly decorative artist in a canon still primarily oriented towards the two-dimensional and the category of fine art, and Tuke because of the open secret of the pederastic character of his work, at a moment in which childhood sexual abuse remains one of the key cultural issues of our time. What might we learn from returning to think about both?

This lecture is a pre-recorded lecture that will be made available to ticketholders to watch in their own time. This lecture is the fourth in a four-part series, Manpower Lectures: Antiquity, aesthetes and athleticism.

Manpower Lectures – #4 Queer and Now (online)

6—7pm

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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.

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

6—7pm

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

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Manpower Lectures – #3 The New Mail Order
Manpower Lectures – #3 The New Mail Order

6—7pm

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

When Eugen Sandow, the father of modern bodybuilding, toured New Zealand in the summer of 1902-03, his aim was to reshape the nation. Long before the likes of Charles Atlas peddled mail order muscle programmes, the Sandow System was embraced by men throughout New Zealand. Eager to flex and pose and dream of a new male order, these men joined local gyms, entered bodybuilding contests, and even strutted their stuff in local beauty competitions. In this lecture, Dr Caroline Daley reveals the bodies of early twentieth century men and questions whether our fixation with rugby players, farmers and soldiers means we’re missing the pleasure that comes from gazing upon the world’s most perfectly developed man and his local acolytes.

This lecture is the third in a four-part series, Manpower Lectures: Antiquity, aesthetes and athleticism. 

Manpower Lectures – #3 The New Mail Order

6—7pm

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

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Passport (Argonauta) (iv)
Passport (Argonauta) (iv)

Zac Langdon-Pole

Production date
2018
Medium
paper nautilus shell, Muonionalusta meteorite (iron; fine octahedrite, landsite:, Norrbotten, Sweden)
Size (h x w)
95 x 33 x 65 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased with funds from Auckland Contemporary Art Trust 2018
Accession no
2018/19
Passport (Argonauta) (iv)

Zac Langdon-Pole

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