On the radio - special edition

Many thanks to Lynn Freeman from Standing Room Only on RNZ National, who let me come in and talk about the digital innovations I saw at the Brooklyn Museum and Cooper Hewitt this year, making fulfilling the requirements of my Winston Churchill Fellowship that little bit easier.

On the radio

Today on the radio I talked about two stories coming out of Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands (including this one about removing racially charged terms from the online information about artworks) and shows to see around the country over Christmas


Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show - Auckland Art Gallery

Sister Corita's Summer of Love - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Julian Dashper & Friends - City Gallery Wellington

New Zealand Photography Collected - Te Papa

Seraphine Pick: White Noise - The Dowse Art Museum

Christchurch Art Gallery re-opens 19 December

Jae Hoon Lee: Stranger in a Strange Land - Dunedin Public Art Gallery

On the radio

On the radio today I discussed the new Arts Foundation Next Generation and Laureate awardees (Simon Denny and Lisa Walker respectively) and some interesting (and silly) stuff going on with museums and Instagram.

Audio updates

If you're not thoroughly sick of it already (part of the duties of a Winston Churchill Fellowship is sharing the ideas and information you gathered) here are two recent pieces I've done on my American research trip: one for Nine to Noon that focuses on new museums and new architecture, and one for The Dowse's own podcast that focuses on some of my wider observations on funding models, visitor experience, and the beauty of being able to focus on doing only one thing in your museum.

On the radio

Today on the radio I talked about my recent trip to the States, with a particular focus on some of the amazing museum architecture I saw, from the Kimball in Fort Worth to the Broad in LA. Some images are available on the RNZ website.

On the radio

Today on the radio I'm going to talk about Cloud Gate-gate and Fiona Pardington's new survey show,  A Beautiful Hesitation. 

On the radio

Today on the radio I'm going to talk about Old Master artist statements and the outcry that has delayed the opening of a new Jack the Ripper museum in London.

On the radio

Belated, but - my whole segment last week was devoted to the new collection of Linda Nochlin essays, Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader, edited by Maura Reilly (NYT review here, text of the "seminal" 1971 essay 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?' here).

Combined with currently reading Nicholas Mirzoeff's How to See the World (Guardian article by the author here), it's really brought home to me the fact that the visual and social world we (or at least I) has transformed in the past 50 years. Hardly a mindblowing insight, but a little explosive when it's happening inside your head.

On the radio

Yesterday on the radio I talked about Shannon Te Ao at City Gallery, Jannis Kounellis in New York, and Seraphine Pick at The Dowse.

On the radio

This week on the radio I talked about some of the exhibitions and events happening as part of the Matariki festival in Wellington, including He Toi Reikorangi at Mahara Gallery and Ngatai Taepa's survey exhibition at Pataka. We also looked at Britain's decision to put a visual artist on their currency and a few stories I've covered over the past 5 years.

On the radio

Today on the radio I'm going to talk about two shows I've enjoyed recently:

Frances Hodgkins: Lace Collars and Calico - Dunedin Public Art Gallery, until 16 August

Tell tails - Christine Hellyar, Maureen Lander and Jo Torr, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, until 14 August

This June is my 5th anniversary at Nine to Noon: after stepping in to cover a friend in the New Media spot earlier in 2010, I started my fortnightly gig just after I left the National Library and on the day (I think) that I flew out of Wellington to take part in Foo Camp. Pretty much nothing else in my life (except living in Wellington) is still the same. It's the longest job I've had, and I still love doing it.

Today on the radio

Today on the radio I talked about Lisa Reihana's new work at Auckland Art Gallery and the design collective nominated for the Turner Prize.

On the radio

Today on the radio I'll be talking about Michael Parekowhai's exhibition The Promised Land at QAGOMA. Can't wait until 11.45am? Check out Rhana Devenport's post on the show.

On the radio

On the radio today I talked about museum/visual art podcasting, the move to have the land around Michael Heizer's massive work City declared a monument to preserve it from development, and briefly about Tungaru: The Kiribati Project by Chris Charteris and Jeff Fox at Pataka.

On the radio

On the radio today I'll be talking about the Trends Watch report (futurists predict six important trends for museums in the coming years) and, if we have time, visual arts podcasts.

UPDATE: We ran out of time for podcasting, so enjoy the links below, and I'll cover it next time round.

Download the 2015 Trends Watch from the Center for the Future of Museums

The Circuit podcast

The Dowse podcast

A History of the World in 100 objects

Modern Art Notes podcast

Te Papa channel

Art Critics Love Us On Yelp - On the Media

On the radio

On the radio today I'm going to be talking about the Menagerie exhibition at ACCA (until 1 March) and Immune and Implicated at Michael Lett Gallery (until 28 February).

On the radio

First time back on the radio for 2015 today, and I'll be talking about a virtual Museum of Stolen Art, the recent finding against Luc Tuymans in a copyright case, and The Dowse's summer Wikipedia project.

Confirming that there are few things worse than listening to your own voice

This week's edition of The Dowse podcast sees Sasha and Cat embark on their mission to demystify museum jobs by talking to me about being a first-time director.

On the radio

On the radio today I'll talk about Metro magazine's nomination of Michael Parekowhai's light house sculpture as a 'best is yet to come', and art books for Christmas.

On the radio

Squeezed for time this week, we only snuck in a garbled (I had to phone in, which I loathe doing) segment on the 40th anniversary of Fingers, one of the world's longest running contemporary jewellery galleries.