Archive for October, 2008
Monday, October 27th, 2008
I was recently delighted by the exhibition Constructing the Modern City: post-war Canterbury architecture 1945-1970 at the Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA) as part of Christchurch Heritage Week. It serves as an excellent reminder that while Plischke was fumbling around with high ceiling stud beach houses with exposed beams in ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
While working on my Wheel of Fortune drinking game (whenever Jason Gunn says something creepy or inappropriate, you drink) it occurred to me that getting a not-especially funny comedian like Oscar Knightly to launch the Walters Prize exhibition (as opposed to, say – and this is radical, I know – ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Richard Till’s television program Kiwi Kitchen has really inspired me to seriously consider the food our aunts, grandmothers and mothers made as a sort of national indigenous (if one may be permitted to use that charged word in this context) cuisine. Particularly the desserts (and a pox on all chefs ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Ladies, sick of the Snark-hunt for the non-existent SNAG? A Red Queen’s Race, running faster and faster just to stay on the same spot? Tired of fighting over the vanity mirror with a preening, suede-headed metrosexual? Bored to the verge of tears by untucked shirts and the stench of Lynx, ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
McMansions are metastasizing all over New Zealand, fruiting like fungi on any empty land adjacent to a lake, seacoast or golf course. They clot the hillsides of Sumner, the upper tiers of Queenstown, and in certain suburbs of Auckland, any villa without a heritage protection order is fair game to ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
It pleases me that Ed Hanfling’s review of the Walter’s Prize 2008 finalists in the latest Listener, accords almost entirely with my own hysterical ranting in Artbash not so long ago. It still amazes me that dreadful bumf like John Reynold’s Cloud and Lisa Reihana’s Digital Marae can even qualify ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
On September 26, I saw an extraordinary exhibition in an empty rough-brick warehouse space on Lichfield St by Telly Tu’u, a fourth year painting student at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts. It was a sophisticated body of work: large canvasses that managed to create an illusory schematic ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
· John Key was once a director of Merill-Lynch, which went spectacularly down in flames as an early victim of the current credit crunch. Do you really want to make him Prime Minister?
· Rob Guest’s actual death was relatively quick and painless, in contrast to the TV tributes.
· British Television ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Goodness me, it’s been too long since I last posted, but I’ve been rather tangled up in other projects and the day to day complexities of trying to survive in the modern world when you have no employable skills other than binge-drinking (though I know better, but in my own ...
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