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 us for the return of Writers Lounge – a series of engaging discussions and conversations between writers and social commentators in our auditorium.
Artists Natalie Robertson and Gabriel Rossell-Santillán will present their works and develop a common discussion ground about their learning experiences, challenges and strategies of and working experiences with their ancestral histories.
Associate Professor Linda Tyler introduces new exhibition Manifesto, exploring the words and sentiments of the powerful historical statements by artists referred to in the exhibition.
Former Assistant Curator Mathew Norman discusses the work of the great French printmaker Honoré Daumier, whose works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.
AUT Universty Senior Lecturer Miriam Harris places the illustrations of the great 19th century French political commentator, Honoré Daumier in context with the work of other caricaturists.
This day-long symposium invites artists, writers, critics, academics and others to reflect on the work that photographs can do today and the changing significance of the image as a social or cultural representation.
Join us on Waitangi Day for a conversation with acclaimed artist, Emily Karaka, in the presence of her powerful, exuberantly-coloured paintings currently on display as part of Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art.
Join BA Art History Honours student, Alicia Taylor as she discusses the political relationship between Florence and Paris within a broader context of the works in The Corsini Collection.
Filmed over five years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the US policies of the past half-century, laying bare the principles that have led to this worldwide, historically unprecedented concentration of private capital and political influence, favouring a financial aristocracy while relegating the world’s majorities to the margins.
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.
He Whakaputanga/The Declaration of Independence, signed between 1835 and 1839, was a powerful assertion of mana and rangatiratanga. It was followed in 1840 by Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 by 540 rangatira around the country. Talking with Mihingarangi Forbes, Dr Aroha Harris, Dame Claudia Orange and Morgan Godfery discuss the significance of these two New Zealand documents – and the people who signed them.
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.
Join Auckland Art Gallery Research Librarians Catherine Hammond & Caroline McBride for their insight into Collective Women: Feminist Art Archives from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Join artist and Pacific Sisters’ member Suzanne Tamaki and New Zealand Fashion Museum director Doris de Pont for a VIP, early-morning tour of the exhibition Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera | Fashion Activists.
Assistant Curator Emma Jameson looks at how fashion was used to project personality and showcase status in portraits from the politically tumultuous environment of 17th century Europe.
Dr Rick Weiss, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, presents a lecture on Ramayana.
Presented by Objectspace, The Single Object series sees Wallace Chapman, broadcaster and host of The Panel on Radio New Zealand, interview a range of guests about six objects that are important to them, providing a personal insight into how the world can be seen and understood through material culture.
Hear visiting artists Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira (Chile) and Joaquín Sánchez (Bolivia) discuss their work featured in Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America.
Focusing on three distinct artistic movements Dr Genaro Vilanova Miranda Oliveira discusses how artists creatively responded to racial and political theories from their respective contexts both to produce innovative artworks but also to engage as leading voices in national debates.
Join Catherine Hammond, Auckland Art Gallery’s Research Library Manager, as she introduces the Library’s new exhibition. Spaces are limited, booking required.
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.
Berlin-based curator, writer and lecturer Dr Elisabeth Klotz discusses a new global movement in the art of the 21st century called 'artivism' that arises from the combination of art and activism.
Director of the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies at The University of Auckland, Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda presents a lecture 'Written on the Wall: Latin American Street Storytellers from Muralismo to Graffiti'.
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