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OUTPOST: February 2015
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Blogs from staff and friends of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Monday, 9 February 2015. Learning through the Arts: What’s the value? How do you do it well? Did you know that students participating in a one-off art gallery learning programme were shown to perform on average 9.1% better in their use of critical thinking skills than students who hadn’t? This improvement increased to about 18% for students from low socio-economic backgrounds, and students from ‘minority’ groups. At the core of Visible Th...
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Otautau Museum: April 2015
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Ngā mihi, haere mai ki te Otautau Museum. Greetings, welcome to the Otautau Museum. Virtual Exhibit - The Jacksons. Thursday, 23 April 2015. This first-hand account of landing at Gallipoli by Otautau soldier, Archie McDonald, makes for interesting reading. Archie had been a stock agent for Wright Stephenson and Co. and enlisted in June 1915, age 26. Otautau "Boys" at the Front. PS By the time you get this I hope to be well into the Turks again. 5 - Roll of Honour - Gallipoli - Edward Richard Thomas.
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OUTPOST: May 2015
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Blogs from staff and friends of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Thursday, 14 May 2015. Charles Heaphy 1820–1881. During the making of A Pioneering Spirit. I was asked to provide an opportunity for a post-graduate student from the University of Auckland’s Art History Department. From my first meeting with Jacqueline Henderson I appreciated her curiosity for this early period in New Zealand’s art history. 8211; Ngahiraka Mason, Indigenous Curator, Māori Art. Charles Heaphy 1820–1881. The period between ...
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OUTPOST: Robert Ellis and Billy Apple
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Blogs from staff and friends of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Friday, 10 April 2015. Robert Ellis and Billy Apple. Robert Ellis visited the Gallery this week to view Billy Apple's exhibition The Artist Has To Live Like Everybody Else. For the first time. I had earlier gone on a tour of the show with Billy where he told me about the genesis of many of the artworks. The public enjoyed meeting him as we were walking through. During the last year we hosted Robert Ellis' Turangawaewae. Subscribe to: Post...
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OUTPOST: August 2014
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Blogs from staff and friends of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Monday, 25 August 2014. The Lab: If you were to live here. A year ago this month the 5th Auckland Triennial, If you were to live here…. Closed after receiving the highest Triennial attendance to date of 90,000 visitors to its nine sites. All venues were free for the first time, which had a significant impact on attendance. This month a beautiful publication, The Lab: If you were to live here…. The Lab was a design-based trans-disciplinary...
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Otautau Museum: Old Anglican Church
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Ngā mihi, haere mai ki te Otautau Museum. Greetings, welcome to the Otautau Museum. Virtual Exhibit - The Jacksons. Tuesday, 14 July 2015. Three churches in Manapouri. Former Otautau Anglican Church on the left. Otautau had four thriving churches in the past - the Presbyterian, Methodist, Anglican and Catholic. Three of these historic buildings remain, but one was removed several years ago and has a new life as an arts and crafts shop in Manapouri. The front of the arts and crafts building, Manapouri.
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OUTPOST: On the Mend: Part III
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Blogs from staff and friends of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Tuesday, 23 December 2014. On the Mend: Part III. An update on the conservation of Woman with a Floral Wreath. Last post, I described mending the tear, lining the canvas for support. Now finally I can give you an after treatment image. Before Treatment After Treatment. 1) Detail of the tear before treatment (2) Detail of the tear after filling with white putty-like material (3) Detail of the tear after treatment. Find us on Facebook.
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OUTPOST: Learning through the Arts: What’s the value? How do you do it well?
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Blogs from staff and friends of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Monday, 9 February 2015. Learning through the Arts: What’s the value? How do you do it well? Did you know that students participating in a one-off art gallery learning programme were shown to perform on average 9.1% better in their use of critical thinking skills than students who hadn’t? This improvement increased to about 18% for students from low socio-economic backgrounds, and students from ‘minority’ groups. At the core of Visible Th...
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OUTPOST: December 2014
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Blogs from staff and friends of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Tuesday, 23 December 2014. On the Mend: Part III. An update on the conservation of Woman with a Floral Wreath. Last post, I described mending the tear, lining the canvas for support. Now finally I can give you an after treatment image. Before Treatment After Treatment. 1) Detail of the tear before treatment (2) Detail of the tear after filling with white putty-like material (3) Detail of the tear after treatment. Links to this post. After...
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OUTPOST: Michael Parekowhai: The Promised Land
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Blogs from staff and friends of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Tuesday, 7 April 2015. Michael Parekowhai: The Promised Land. 28 March – 21 June 2015, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane. At QAGOMA is a fascinating and indeed spectacular response to this challenge. It is a knockout retrospective. 2015, Cook is found with friends, sitting on a model-making table, perhaps mid-voyage, exhausted and wondering where to from here. The third and final exhibition area is described by Parekowhai as the open...
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