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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

You’re nobunny till somebunny loves you

Like some kind of WASPy counterpoint to Simon Denny's The personal effects of Kim Dotcom, this NYT account of the auction of Bunny (Rachel Lambert) Mellon's household goods makes strangely transfixing reading.

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On the radio

Once a month I drop into Radio New Zealand National as the arts correspondent for the Nine to Noon programme.

30 October 2019

The Kaldor Public Art Projects exhibition at AGNSW; Renaissance Bologna's unusual support for women artists; the Adam Art Gallery's 20th anniversary

3 October 2019

Amsterdam Museum's decision to lose the term 'Golden Age'; the theft of Maurizio Cattelan's golden toilet

25 September 2019

The debate over ICOM's proposed new definition of 'a museum' and Joyce Campbell at the Adam Art Gallery

28 August 2019

Jacqueline Fahey at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery; 'The Night watch' restoration project; a new report showing women's art gaining (kind of) on the secondary market

10 July 2019

Mary Kisler's epic Frances Hodgkins research pays off in an exhibition, two books & online catalogue raisonne

12 June 2019

Two exhibitions honour modernist artist Guy Ngan

15 May 2019

'The Room': four interlinked exhibitions by four curators at Objectspace

17 April 2019

Semiconductor at City Gallery Wellington

20 March 2019

Remembering Carolee Schneemann

20 February 2019

The Watercolours of the World project

23 January 2019

The year ahead in the visual arts

19 December 2018

Remembering artist Vivian Lynn

21 November 2018

Remembering artist Peter Peryer

29 August 2018

Patrick Pound at City Gallery Wellington

1 August 2018

New Zealand's house museums & Tauranga Art Gallery's project at The Elms

4 July 2018

Rapid response collecting, and events and exhibitions relating to the 125th commemoration of Women's Suffrage

7 December 2016

Exhibitions to see in Auckland, Tauranga, Whanganui, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin this Christmas break.

9 November 2016

The dropping of the art history A-level, MOMA's acquisition of the original 176 emoji, and Koen Vanmechelen's Cosmopolitan Chicken Project.

5 October 2016

'Splendour' at Te Papa; Annie Mackenzie at Enjoy and Ruth Buchanan at the Adam Art Gallery

21 September 2016

Doris Lusk's centenary and Peter Doig's battle to prove he didn't paint a painting.

10 August 2016

Walker Evans at the Adam Art Gallery and conceptual art on Melrose Place.

13 July 2016

Jeremy Deller's performance piece for the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and Brexit's predicted effects on the British art world

15 June 2016

Eve Armstrong at the Auckland Art Fair, Francis Upritchard at City Gallery Wellington, Caitlin Devoy at Enjoy

16 December 2015

The Rijksmuseum's project to remove offensive words from artwork titles

4 November 2015

The annual Arts Foundation awards recognise Simon Denny and Lisa Walker

21 October 2015

New architecture, new experiences: The Broad and The Whitney

12 August 2015

Protests delay the opening of a new Jack the Ripper museum in London

29 July 2015

Linda Nochlin is amazing

2 July 2015

Shannon Te Ao, Jannis Kounellis and Seraphine Pick

17 June 2015

Matariki exhibitions and events around the region, including Ngataiharuru Taepa at Pataka

3 June 2015

Maureen Lander, Christine Hellyar and Jo Torr at the National Library of New Zealand; Frances Hodgkins curated by Priscilla Pitts at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery

20 May 2015

Lisa Reihana's 'In Pursuit of Venus [infected]' and the Turner Prize

22 April 2015

'Ornament/Artefact' at Toi Poneke

8 April 2015

Michael Parekowhai''s 'The Promised Land'

25 March 2015

Museum podcasting, Michael Heizer's 'City' and Chris Charteris & Jeff Fox

11 March 2015

The 2015 Museums Trendwatch report

25 February 2015

Artists & agents, and Billy Apple's forthcoming show at Auckland Art Gallery

11 February 2015

'Menagerie' at ACCA and 'Implicated and Immune' at Michael Lett Gallery

28 January 2015

A copyright case finding against painter Luc Tuymans and the Wikipedia project at The Dowse

17 December 2014

Michael Parekowhai's 'lighthouse' for Auckland

3 December 2014

The 40th anniversary of Fingers

5 November 2014

Mrkusich in Masterton; copyright and the First World War

22 October 2014

Post-internet art and Auckland Art Gallery's Light Show

8 October 2014

Simon Denny's 'The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom'

24 September 2014

Barry Brickell, Paul Maseyk and Madeleine Child in Dunedin

10 September 2014

The DomPost has chosen to cancel their fortnightly art column

27 August 2014

Art-inspired internet memes and Te Papa's Nga Toi rehang

13 August 2014

Jake Chapman doesn't think children belong in art galleries

30 July 2014

Critics' poetic response to Jeff Koons and a new way of auctioning art

16 July 2014

The Instagram outcry over Kara Walker's 'A Subtlety'

18 June 2014

Wunderruma: New Zealand's largest jewellery show.

4 June 2014

Conserving a Rothko with light, a stolen Rembrandt resurfaces, and artist fees.

7 May 2014

Cleaning the Colosseum and David's weak ankles

23 April 2014

Photography in galleries, and a drone that paints

9 April 2014

'McLeavey Sat Here' at City Gallery Wellington and 'Art vs Bears'

26 March 2014

The 2014 TrendsWatch report for museums

12 March 2014

Ai Weiwei's smashed artwork, rapid-response collecting at the V&A, and the Art Book Prize.

12 February 2014

Reuben Paterson's glitter tree and the visual arts in the New Zealand Festival

29 January 2014

Older art recalled by new moments: Donna Tartt and 'The Goldfinch'; The Monuments Men.

11 December 2013

A year's-end round up.

13 November 2013

The death of art philosopher Arthur C Danto and the revelation of a stash of Nazi-looted art in Germany.

30 October 2013

John Panting and Peter Robinson at the Adam Art Gallery, and cave art.

2 October 2013

London's Fourth Plinth, Christchurch's SCAPE public art festival, and 'New Revised Edition' at City Gallery Wellington.

4 September 2013

Gabby O'Connor at Toi Poneke, 'New Olds' at The Dowse Art Museum, and how to collect an iPad app.

21 August 2013

Do museums need saving from themselves, and should artists be able to take photos of you inside your home?

7 August 2013

Conservation projects, moving image digitisation, and a museum in a lift shaft.

24 July 2013

James Turkington at Rotorua Museum and 'California Design' at Auckland Art Gallery.

10 July 2013

The work of late New Zealand painter Ian Scott, and the exhibition 'Moana - My Ocean' at Auckland Museum.

26 June 2013

Shane Cotton at City Gallery Wellington.

29 May 2013
Beautiful Creatures at the Adam Art Gallery.

15 May 2013
The Auckland Triennial and (briefly) Bazinga! at Starkwhite

1 May 2013
Glen Hayward at City Gallery Wellington, the Turner Prize, and 3D printing in museums.

17 April 2013
Exhibitions at movie theatres, missed connections in New York museums, and two exhibitions at the Sarjeant Gallery.

3 April 2013
Te Papa's new hang from its art collections, Nga Toi.

20 March 2013
A bargain basement David drawing picked up recently by the Met, the BBC's 'Your Paintings' project and a round-up of shows around the country.

6 March 2013
Rediscovered artworks, an amazing database of art in Britain, and vacuuming-cleaning visitors to the Sistine Chapel.

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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

You’re nobunny till somebunny loves you

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