Travel to Florence with one of Merchant Ivory production's most beloved E.M. Forster adaptations featuring a cast of legendary actors, including Helena Bonham Carter in her breakout role and Maggie Smith playing the perfect acerbic matriarch decades before Downton Abbey.
As part of the Biennale of Sydney’s investigation into their Archive, 21st Biennale Artistic Director Mami Kataoka and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Director Rhana Devenport co-moderate a conversation with three New Zealand artists whose contributions to Biennale of Sydney editions in 1998, 2000, 2006 and 2012 remain in our memories.
The opening sequence of a very young boy delivering a sermon with vitriolic hatred in his eyes sets the scene for this chilling recording of the spread of radical Islam in Pakistan, and the resulting clash of ideologies between moderate and fundamentalist forces.
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.
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.
Painting conservator Carolina Izzo discusses the intriguing and sometimes extraordinary methods used by the Renaissance and Baroque artists to make their paint.
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.
Join BA Art History Honours student Chance Wilson for a short talk on the difficulties of attributing works of art to the correct artist with a particular reference to the painting Prometheus and the Eagle in The Corsini Collection.
Get started on a beautiful XXL knitting project! You will be provided with a great starter kit, which includes the best quality Merino wool, needles, pattern book and more.
