As part of the Friends studio tours programme, a group visited Bob Kerr’s Wellington studio in September. Up two flights of stairs in the Cuba Street building that is occupied…
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During its history, the house accommodated families with as many as 13 children, numerous visiting missionaries and other guests, including Charles Darwin who visited at Christmas 1835 when HMS Beagle…
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Pompallier Mission on the Russell waterfront was the perfect finale to the Friends Far North tour. Now surrounded by charming Edwardian-style gardens, the elegant French colonial two-storey building once stood…
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Victoria University students past and present should consider the art hanging on the walls of the university as being theirs to enjoy, inspire and educate. That was definitely the reaction…
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Ann Hodson and Sheryn Shackleton displaying an example of Anna's work Like the pattern of a Persian carpet Anna Williams wove stories of her life’s journey amidst tales of craft…
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The recent Seddon earthquakes, hastened the plans to earthquake strengthen this Category 1 heritage building and after almost 4 years of strengthening work it was officially reopened in April 2017.…
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The subject for the evening was Cartoons: Can they survive the digital age? The panel comprised cartoon historian and writer Ian F Grant, cartoonist Toby Morris, political columnist Jane Clifton,…
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Art became visceral and live in its depiction of rock ‘n’ roll’s energetic audibility. Elvis himself quickly became a favourite subject, artists playing with his masculinity and dandyism, or portraying…
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'Colonial Gothic to Māori Renaissance' is a remarkable eulogy to Jonathan Mane-Wheoki from friends, colleagues, and former students and its contents are as varied and fascinating as the man himself.
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The star attraction undoubtedly was the 1968 Colin McCahon, Helensville Series A, No. 1-4. Instantly recognisable as a McCahon with its monumental and pared down black and white imagery but…
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