Archive for June, 2011

The latest from CoCA

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

When Christchurch was a very young city, a bunch of artists and like-minded folk got together to encourage and support art making and exhibition in this place. They established the CSA and held their first exhibition 130 years ago. That same organisation still wants to encourage and support the ...

Alphaville: Krautrock Valhalla

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Long before I read Goethe, Rilke, Schiller and Mann; long before I saw a Caspar David Friedrich or Anselm Kiefer painting; and with far more impact on my wee tortured soul than Bach and Beethoven combined (I draw the line at Wagner, it’s like being gang raped by an orchestra), ...