Art Archive
The art of work: Invisible labour on show at Dowse Gallery’s The Future of Work
The Future of Work at Hutt City's Dowse Art Museum makes visible our changing work conditions. Mark Amery took a tour, and even got some work done himself while he was there.
Drawing lines between us all: Julia Mage’au Gray’s Melanesian mark-making
Lana Lopsesi on tatu maker Julia Mage’au Gray, the revival of Melanesian female tattoo practice, and an exhibition paying homage to her work.
Calling out Cook: Porirua’s Pātaka gallery confronts the complexities of Tuia250
Pātaka Art+Museum's exhibition Here: Kupe to Cook challenges the discovery narrative that's the cornerstone of Pākehā national history.
Things I Learned at Art School: Yvonne Todd
The acclaimed photographer on the appeal of fashion, Madonna's aging process and what photography students never need to photograph again.
The dank and magical house where Colin McCahon lived
To mark the centenary of Colin McCahon's birth, a weekend of events in August included a bus ride to experience 'McCahon's Auckland' and an ‘open home’ at the McCahon House Museum.
Flow like water: Yuk King Tan on Hong Kong artists’ response to the protests
Hope, censorship, the Hong Kong protests and their threads across Asia and the Pacific: a conversation with artist Yuk King Tan, whose show Crisis of the Ordinary is at Starkwhite gallery now. .
1000 words: Pania Newton at Ihumātao
1000 Words is a Spinoff series talking to the photographers behind our most iconic political images. In this instalment, photographer Chris McKeen describes shooting Pania Newton at Ihumātao.
Subverted symmetry: Karen Walker on framing Frances Hodgkins
Fashion, beauty and modernism all play a part in the exhibition Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys. Megan Dunn talks to fashion designer Karen Walker about her Hodgkins-inspired fashion collection.
The man behind The Hand: Artist Ronnie van Hout on why he made Quasi
The giant hand that captivated and disgusted the nation is now settling into its new Wellington home. Spinoff arts editor Megan Dunn talked to Ronnie van Hout, the man who made Quasi.
The past is a fucked up place: Theo Schoon, reviewed and reconsidered
Split Level View Finder: Theo Schoon and New Zealand Art is the exhibition that sparked a major protest. Schoon is a divisive historical figure – but is his art any good?
How to Live Together: A sprawling art show about a culture at boiling point
Who makes up the royal 'we'? Lana Lopesi reviews a massive show at ST PAUL St Gallery in Auckland that investigates questions of community, culture and conflict.
Things I Learned at Art School: Simon Denny
Things I Learned at Art School is a new series featuring artists discussing how they do what they do and know what they know. In the second instalment, Megan Dunn talks to Berlin-based New Zealander Simon Denny about Michael Parekowhai, teaching and technology, and an idea involving the online shoe store Zappos that didn't work out.
Stripping for Monet: What it’s like to be a nude model
Caroline Moratti goes all the way undercover to discover the truth about nude modelling for artists and photographers.
Pastorale: an art show about the environment, minus the moralising
The best little art show about the environment is big on charm and low on preaching and you can find it at Robert Heald Gallery in Wellington for one more week. Megan Dunn reviews.
Enter Christchurch, Radiant City: Tony de Lautour’s paintings of the scars of home
David Eggleton considers the remarkable radiance and Canterbury swamp fog of Tony De Lautour's paintings in this mid-career survey at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
The debate over Theo Schoon, who built his career on the backs of Māori artists
An exhibition of Dutch-New Zealand artist Theo Schoon at the City Gallery in Wellington has set off a debate about the place of racially problematic work in public spaces.
The art award that’s been annoying the Waikato (and Paul Henry) for 20 years
A bus stop, a soap dish, beer crates and a pile of rubbish: in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the National Contemporary Art award, we look at the media …
Watch: Metiria Turei opens up on a life in politics, art and activism in Two Sketches
The former Greens co-leader opens up on watching politics after leaving parliament, that controversial speech, and her life in art.
The woman reviving the art of Māori Aute
Nikau Hindin is reviving a contemporary form of Māori art largely lost after the extinction of the aute plant in Aotearoa. Photographer Sait Akirrman visited Nikau in studio.
The Katherine Mansfield of paint: Frances Hodgkins’ European Journeys, reviewed
At the Auckland Art Gallery, a grand tour of escapism, adventure and parochialism with NZ's quintessential expatriate artist.
Hot dog! William Wegman: Being Human, reviewed
Aaron Kreisler looks beyond the gags in this survey of an artist and his dogs at the Christchurch Art Gallery. “The dog really must love him, it’s so incredibly patient…”, a …
Toeing the Party Line: an audio artwork about the Unfortunate Experiment
Party Line is a new audio work by Evangeline Riddiford Graham that reinvestigates the Cartwright Inquiry, medical mispractice and misogyny through the lens of the #metoo era.
Does art need to do good in order to be good? Kim Hak: Alive, reviewed
Telling the stories of Cambodian refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge through the objects they carried, it will please many and offend none.
‘She can draw a ball-sack better than anyone alive’: Hera Lindsay Bird on artist Hannah Salmon
'Like Escher, if he was more into dicks than staircases.' Poet Hera Lindsay Bird celebrates the work of New Zealand artist Hannah Salmon, aka Daily Secretion, and her portraits of angry 'alpha men'.
