Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
It’s always going to be slightly awkward for a bourgeois-and-proud, conservative liberal PÄkehÄ to write about contemporary Aboriginal art in the context of modern Australia. “Let he who is without sin†and so forth. Just because I can point to the Tiriti o Waitangi is no reason for me to ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
As a wonderful counterpoint, upstairs from Picasso and His Collection currently showing at GoMA is Gernika in Sand ('Gernika' being the Basque spelling) by the charming Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei. The work is a painstaking recreation of Picasso's Guernica (1937) – possibly the most moving anti-war statement of twentieth century art – ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
It has often struck me that it is a terrible shame that while Australians know a lot about Colin McCahon and a few select others, New Zealanders know sweet Fanny bugger all about Australian art despite many historical and Trans-Tasman connections. For the record, Australians see Big Mac Daddy as ...
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