Following two sold-out summer runs on our beautiful East Terrace, music series Anno Domini returns for one very special show featuring what is potentially its best line-up to date.
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 live performance of Upright Piano, 2013, a work by composer Samuel Holloway with the collective et al..
In association with Shout Whisper Wail! The 2017 Chartwell Show, Australian artist Marco Fusinato will perform Spectral Arrows, an improvised seven-hour performance for guitar and amplification.
Join Anna Miles at her gallery for a talk about the current exhibition featuring the work of Adrienne Vaughan – an artist whose work was recently exhibited in Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show here at Auckland Art Gallery.
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 artists Juliet Carpenter and Biljana Popovic – whose work features in the new triennial Chartwell exhibition Shout Whisper Wail! – in conversation with Curator, Contemporary Art, Natasha Conland.
In this fast-paced, action-based workshop for 5 year olds we will look at artwork in the contemporary painting show Necessary Distraction and take ourselves on a tour of the many ways we can paint.
In this fast-paced, action-based workshop for 5 year olds we will look at artwork in the contemporary painting show Necessary Distraction and take ourselves on a tour of the many ways we can paint.
During the Festival of Architecture, and to coincide with the showing of Future Islands at Objectspace, The New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) is running an afternoon event focusing on the issue of exhibiting architecture.
On the eve of her 70th birthday in 2010 Canadian star Margaret Atwood travelled to North America and the UK to publicise her dystopian novel The Year of the Flood, with a theatrical version of the novel which combined performance, music and readings.
Join us in celebrating Luit Bieringa’s documentary The heART of the matter, featuring several of the artists currently on show in Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art.
Taking the format of the BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs curator and writer Susan Bright’s talk will take eight images that have influenced her thinking and approach to photography.
Artist and Pacific Sisters’ member Feeonaa Wall will join forces with Senior Curator, NZ and Pacific Art, Ron Brownson, to give an illustrated talk on Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera | Fashion Activists, prior to the Members Preview of the exhibition.
A documentary by Australian body image activist Taryn Brumfitt on her campaign to counteract the intense and unrelenting pressures on Western women and girls to fixate on appearance.
Julie Georgia Bernard’s fascinating documentary Handmade with Love in France celebrates the Parisian artisans who create fabulous haute-couture outfits for the likes of Dior, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.
Join us at She Claims: Art Matters, a series of events where you’ll rub elbows with creatives and critics while celebrating the ideas, voices and power of creative women. In session five of this series visual artist Ruth Buchanan will talk with curator Natasha Conland about her creative practice, drive, culture and the key topics in her work she cares deeply about.
The online Sunday magazine e-Tangata tells Māori and Pasifika stories about people and issues of significance to all New Zealanders. The storytellers you’ll meet are Tapu Misa, Dale Husband, Moana Maniapoto, Māmari Stephens and Stacey Morrison. They’ll talk a little about e-Tangata and what they are working to achieve; and they are keen to hear what you would like to read in the future.
Big Day Art: Calling the World provides an opportunity for families to experience Auckland Art Gallery and immerse themselves in a celebration of artistic experience and creativity. See, do, listen, move, make and share – become creative agents and explorers. Join us in celebrating Matariki and our New Zealand landscape and explore what it means to discover, journey and adventure through a series of hands-on activities and workshops.
Join painter Professor Xiong Yu and visiting digital media artist Chen Qiang from Chengdu in conversation about their new group show Collapsing Borders at Pah Homestead with co-curators Warren Pringle and Yanxin Zhong.
Follow in the footsteps of Danish designers, and create a contemporary wooden coat hook at community workshop The Warren. Before you step behind the workbench, Assistant Curator, Emma Jameson will give an introduction on Scandinavian design vernacular, and furniture designer Nathan Goldsworthy will show us around his studio
Are tourists saving the planet or destroying it? How do travellers change the remote places they visit? This film examines the answers – some heartbreaking, some hopeful
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.
Join Professor Laurence Simmons for a lecture discussing the importance of intuition, chance, randomness, colour, sensuality and mysticism for Gordon Walters and will seek to demonstrate the active participation in a varied cultural history that lies beneath his work.
Join us for a screening of Apron Strings, with an introduction from scriptwriter Shuchi Kothari. The film is a parallel story of two families and two cutures set in surburban Otahuhu, South Auckland.
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