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Less than two weeks remain to enter the National Contemporary Art Award, hosted by Hamilton’s Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato. The 2023 call for entries will close at 1pm, Monday 8 May. Now in its 23rd year, the National Contemporary ...

<img src='https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2303/a3fe2ea7ff657095caa7.jpeg' width='720' height='479'> Image credit: Gabby O’Connor, All the Colours, All the Light, 2017-2023, The Dowse Art Museum, 2021. Photo by Mark ...

Homeware store owner and grocer Tessa Peach reveals her favourite places to indulge, relax and enjoy local art in Christchurch.

Ava Chuppe Contributing Writer achuppe@murraystate.edu Dean Rudolph Buchheit of the University of Kentucky College of Engineering presented a seminar on implicit bias surrounding women in male-dominated fields that can impact decision making during hiring, promotion and advancement. “It all starts, really, with a reminder to yourself and to those you…

Contemporary Pacific art infuses five exhibitions, and there's the do-it-yourself attitude of Flying Nun’s artists in Hellzapoppin’!

14:00, Jul 02 2021 Supplied Graham Bennett, Disrupt, 2021, 33 machine-shaped wooden axes, pine and native timbers. Photograph by Johannes van Kan. Collection of the Canterbury Museum. In July’s listing of the best exhibitions in Canterbury, Warren Feeney recommends Graham Bennett’s AXIS + AXES as a must-see treasure, discovers that a catastrophe is more than an act of nature or God’s choosing, and that after a ten-year absence, senior painter and printmaker Stanley Palmer has returned t...

Exhibition preview: Thursday 10 June, 5:30pm Exhibition runs: 11 June - 25 July 2021 Artist talk with Rachel Shearer: Saturday 12 June, 1pm Image: Microwave/mailbox from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, shared during research correspondence, 2021. Photo: Lucy Skaer. Light enough to read by emerged from discussions around the return of The Physics Room’s library into the gallery and to public access. For the last three years, since the shift to our current site in the Registry Additions Building, ...

The re-energising of street art at Canterbury Museum is a highlight as Warren Feeney’s list of 10 must-see exhibitions in for the month returns in May. Plus the Physics Room’s Bedrock helps us remember who we are, an Art Chemist opens in Ōtautahi with a promise of wellbeing... and there is more. 1. Benjamin Work, Hakē: Street Art Revealed, Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Ave. Auckland-born Tongan/Scottish street artist Benjamin Work’s 330 square metre floor-to-wall mural brings a newf...

Exhibition runs: 27 February – 4 April 2021 Exhibition talk with Jamie Hanton and Grace Crothall: Wednesday 3 March, 5:30pm Grace Crothall’s Shelter House draws on an atmosphere, material textures and sounds familiar to the artist from growing up in the charismatic pentecostal movement in the 90s. The installation takes its name from a worship song of the era, which plays intermittently in the space. Crothall explores the interplay between born-again adult and child-like states within this...

Thus the Blast Carried it, Into the World , (still), 2021. Monitor 3.1: Curated by Sean Kerr, Michelle Wang, and Jamie Hanton with a new commission by Qianye Lin and Qianhe ‘AL’ Lin. Exhibition preview: Friday 29 Janaury, 5:30pm Exhibition runs: 30 January – 21 February 2021 Exhibition talk with Qianye Lin and Qianhe ‘AL’ Lin: Saturday 30 January, 2pm Monitor 3.1 is the second part of a revisit and update to Monitor, an exhibition of moving image work from Aotearoa and abroad curate...