Archive for December, 2009
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
I read an editorial recently disingeniously comparing the recent tizzy over the usage of Wanganui/Whanganui to the usage of Mt Cook/Aoraki. For one thing, Aoraki is the South Island dialect pronunciation and spelling (with a non-aspiratded plosive velar 'k'), just as Wanganui (with the unvoiced labio-velar phoneme 'w'' as in 'whom' and ...
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
It should be perfectly obvious to anyone with half a brain, or even an Australian, that Berlin is the world centre of contemporary art. In about 1600 it was Rome. By the 1880s it was Paris – which then passed the baton to New York so that it could concentrate ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
A Tradition of Immediacy: Group Drawing Exhibition
Observatory Art Room, Christchurch Arts Centre
10 – 13 December 2009
Conversely, the graphic line can only exist against this background, so that a drawing that completely covered its background would cease to be a drawing. This confers on the background a specific role that is ...
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