Celebrate the reopening of the Gallery this weekend by stepping into the long-gone Edo period and become part of the art of the Floating World (ukiyo-e) in our Pop-Up Photo Studio. Get your photo taken and take home your portrait on a sticker for free.
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.
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.
Join Dr Natalie Bell for an illustrated overview that includes key portraits from the Renaissance, as well comparative material from The Corsini Collectionand gain a fascinating insight into the role of women during this period.
Professor of Film Studies and former Head of the Italian Department at the University of Auckland, Laurence Simmons gives an illustrated talk in the exhibition on the popular spectacles, street festivals and drama that were an integral part of Florentine life during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Freelance writer and curator Francis McWhannell presents an illustrated talk on artworks with religious themes produced during the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, taking cues from the exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
The Walters Prize is Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant contemporary art award. Established in 2002, this year will be the tenth iteration of the Walters Prize, which was conceived as a platform to foreground excellence in the visual arts. Come and hear the jury discussing four artworks, selected for their outstanding contributions to contemporary art in New Zealand in the preceding two-year period.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Dr Genaro Vilanova Miranda Oliveira from the Latin American Studies Program at The University of Auckland presents an illustrated talk on the art and politics of Brazil during the 1960s.
Join Assistant Curator Emma Jameson for an illustrated talk about how the artists Odilon Redon, Rembrandt, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Francisco Goya and Eugène Delacroix reacted against social upheaval to express inner worlds immersed in the shadow of reason.
In association with current exhibition Shout Whisper Wail! The 2017 Chartwell Show please join us for a live performance of Upright Piano, 2013, a work by composer Samuel Holloway with the collective et al..
In association with current exhibition Shout Whisper Wail! The 2017 Chartwell Show please join us for a performance of Upright Piano, 2013, a work by composer Samuel Holloway with the collective et al..
In association with current exhibition Shout Whisper Wail! The 2017 Chartwell Show please join us for a performance of Upright Piano, 2013, a work by composer Samuel Holloway with the collective et al..
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
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.
Renowned New Zealand musicians and audio-visual artists, Beth Dawson, Jade Farley and Alice Sparrow perform a twenty-minute improvisation of Sriwhana Spong’s ‘personal orchestra’, a key component of Spong’s Walters Prize exhibition, The Painter-tailor, 2019-2021.
Renowned New Zealand musicians and audio-visual artists, Beth Dawson, Jade Farley and Alice Sparrow perform a twenty-minute improvisation of Sriwhana Spong’s ‘personal orchestra’, a key component of Spong’s Walters Prize exhibition, The Painter-tailor, 2019-2021.
Former Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Lecturer in Art Theory, AUT, Ben Curnow gives an illustrate lecture on the untold story of his grandmother’s contribution to the development of modernism in Auckland.
The film tells the story of a teenager of the Chilean upper class of the early twentieth century, Julio, and the ritual initiation phase which every boy must go through to meet social accepted canons of maturity.
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Exploring hidden gems from Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, guest speaker Dr Rachel Skokowski will trace the key developments and debates that revolutionized 19th-century printmaking.
Join esteemed New Zealand writer Peter Simpson who will speak in conversation with Julia Waite, Curator New Zealand art, about his latest book, the sequel – COLIN MCCAHON: IS THIS THE PROMISED LAND? VOL.2 1960–1987.
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