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The first time I exchanged a memorable hongi was with a very distinguished Maori gentleman at the Wellington Art Gallery (during a private showing of a Goldie exhibition). He looked uncomfortable standing in a line-up top heavy with
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Today marks the opening of ‘Faking It, A Revisitation of Post Modernism’. It’s an exhibition here at the Hastings Art Gallery showing the works of 22 artists and designers associated with the EIT Visual Arts and Design School.
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I was thinking that it’s impossible for time to stand still as we hope it will. It’s like a momentary hope on our part to want that, but in all honesty it’s never going to happen. No. Time (as we know it) is
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There’s something about being surrounded by art that resuscitates my soul. I can’t put my finger on whether it’s the high concentration of ideas or energy or kindredness or all that and more that makes me feel
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“Representation as a construct for a different reality” [as spoken of by Harvey Shields in his review of Paul Hopmeier’s Past Modern Madonna Exhibition] is a heady concept, yet, it crosses the line with neither fear nor trepidation as if it were the most natural thing in the world to do, to ‘rejuvenate’ something and
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