Exhibition review: War is over! (If you want it), by Yoko Ono
Subscriber contentBy Sally Blundell in Art
Issue 3839 28th Nov 2013
The naive idealism of Yoko Ono’s radical conceptual art strikes a chord with visitors.
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Exhibition review: Freedom Farmers
Subscriber contentBy Edward Hanfling in Art
Issue 3837 14th Nov 2013
Freedom Farmers’ over-arching theme about Utopia doesn’t hold up, but there is still much to savour.
Art review: The Light on the Dock, by Erica van Zon
Subscriber contentBy Guy Somerset in Art
Issue 3836 7th Nov 2013
The physical world of novels by Joan Didion and Truman Capote inspired Erica van Zon’s new exhibition.
Peter McLeavey: 'I sell, therefore I am'
By Sally Blundell in Art
Issue 3629 29th Oct 2013
When Peter McLeavey began as an art dealer in 1966, he "thought I'd ring Toss and Colin and get them to send down a few paintings and see what happened".
Marti Friedlander: ‘A collector of raw evidence’
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Art
Issue 3833 22nd Oct 2013
Marti Friedlander has photographed everyone from tattooed kuia and Rita Angus to Sir Walter Nash and John Key. Now her story is being told in a memoir.
Influentials: Christchurch art after the quake
By Sally Blundell in Art
Issue 3829 23rd Sep 2013
Who knew February 22, 2011, would exert such a revitalising influence over Christchurch’s arts scene?
Art review - Glokool: The Bonus Issue
Subscriber contentBy Edward Hanfling in Art
Issue 3829 19th Sep 2013
Popular culture is as much a part of painter Zena Elliott’s world as Maori carving.
Adventures in the skin trade
Subscriber contentBy Edward Hanfling in Art
Issue 3828 12th Sep 2013
The opening of A Different View: Artists Address Pornography was an unusually crowded affair, but the exhibition is an invitation to think rather than just look.
A transforming art market
Subscriber contentBy Sally Blundell in Art
Issue 3825 22nd Aug 2013
A countrywide attrition in dealer galleries is being countered by new, often more mobile opportunities to view or buy art.
Exhibition review: All There is Left
Subscriber contentBy Martin Patrick in Art
Issue 3824 15th Aug 2013
All There Is Left features three artists responding with the utmost complexity to trying circumstances.