There is not much to write about in the New Zealand art world during the holiday period; most galleries are closed or keeping 'summer hours' while gallerists and artists recuperate from the previous season. But it is about to slip smoothly into 2nd gear, with a few concentrated weeks of exhibition openings and events.
I have spent the last few days wishing I was in L.A.... now, or anytime in the next month or two, to catch even a small part of the huge project that is Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980.
This Sunday afternoon Kate Newby will be talking at the Auckland Art Gallery with the contemporary curator, Natasha Conland. The pair will be discussing Kate’s sculpture I’m just like a pile of leaves.
On Friday Harry and I went to Wellington for the opening of Prospect: New Zealand Art Now at the City Gallery. This is the fourth in the series of Prospect exhibitions, a project that began back in 2001 with the aim of providing “the most ‘up-to-the-minute’ survey of contemporary art in the country”.
Last night Harry and I attended the opening of the Everyday Needs pop-up store on Ponsonby Rd.
This week we opened a new exhibition by Ruth Buchanan. Ruth has been based in Berlin for the past few years and before that she was at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. This show is Ruth's first solo in New Zealand since she left after her undergraduate at Elam in 2002.
