Tag: Art and architecture
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Public Art Heritage, a new website launched in July, is calling all art and architecture lovers to register artworks of importance to record on its site.
St James Theatre Auckland: Government pledges $15 million to its restoration
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After eight years of campaigning, the Government has finally responded to Aucklanders’ pleas to save the iconic arts venue.
A (not so) new home for design in Aotearoa
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A year out from toasting the organisation’s 20th birthday, Objectspace is celebrating an influx of support from the newly established Designers’ Collective.
Waikato Theatre connects to river
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Work has begun on Kirikiriroa Hamilton’s new performing arts centre, designed by Jasmax in collaboration with British theatre design consultants Charcoalblue’s Melbourne studio.
Exhibition: Oceanic Architectural Routes: The photographic archive of Mike Austin
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Karamia Müller discusses the Mike Austin photography exhibition, designed by Hannah Manning-Scott for Objectspace, curated by Leali’ifano Albert L. Refiti.
2022 WAF Drawing Prize overall winner
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This year’s winning drawing won the Hybrid Category and was created by friends Samuel Wen (a Kiwi), and Michael Ren who met studying architecture in Melbourne.
Sketching symposium to be hosted in Auckland
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The International Urban Sketchers Symposium will take place in April and is anticipated to be one of the largest gatherings of artists in New Zealand.
Exhibition: Urban Art Village
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Isaac Sweetapple reviews the University of Auckland installations for Urban Art Village 2022 and finds the installations were unabashedly of the present.
Urban Art Village 2022
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This year’s event saw nine architectural installations erected for one night only as part of Art in the City’s popular ‘Late Night Art’ exhibits.
Art in the City 2022: Urban Art Village
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This year sees the return of the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning’s ‘Urban Art Village’ installations, led by architect Matt Liggins.
Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own
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Life at home and housing in Aotearoa: A new exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki opening 3rd September. Admission is free.
Ko Wai Au? | Who Am I?
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Two art exhibitions at Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa interweave themes of politics, economics, culture and ecology, writes Luke Mayall.
Creation Stories
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A major exhibition by artist Simon Denny and architectural researcher Karamia Müller is now on at Michael Lett, and Gus Fisher galleries in Auckland.
Transforming the Royal Academy
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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy, David Chipperfield Architects have designed a newly expanded campus.
Rose James: architecture and sound
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Public Event, Christchurch,
6 Jul 2018 to 12 Aug 2018
Artist Rose James presents through a cloud of smoke and dust at COCA in Christchurch from 6 July to 12 August.
Artist Rose James presents through a cloud of smoke and dust at COCA in Christchurch from 6 July to 12 August.
Why do architects want to be artists?
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Artist, theorist and art educator Donald Richardson asks why many prominent architects want their work to be understood as art.
Powering on
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Colin Martin explores London’s latest arty architectural offering, the £260m Tate Modern extension by Herzog & de Meuron.
Temporary environments
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Kiwi artist Jillian Whitmore makes translucent watercolours with layers and forms that depict transformative cityscapes.
Architecture as art
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What can we learn from architecture collective Assemble’s prestigious Turner Prize win?