Helle Cook: Community of Light
It is hard for Australians to appreciate the precious commodity daylight can be. Being almost permanently sun-drenched across the continent, it’s easy to take our weather [...]
public art
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
With bronze, glass and a neighbourhood park as his tools, Ukrainian artist Nazar Bilyk created what must be one of the most touching and humane pieces of public art to [...]
Profoundly Tested
“We are profoundly tested.” That’s how Christchurch Art Gallery director Jenny Harper described the situation she found herself in just one year after the [...]
Damien Hirst at Fifty
I’m having a midlife crisis on Damien Hirst’s behalf. He turned fifty on the weekend, and from what I’ve seen of people who turn fifty, it’s no [...]
A Step ApArt
I have never met a flight of stairs I’ve particularly wanted to climb up (let alone run up, like those fitness heads who “do stairs” in pursuit of a perfect [...]
Homeless Jesus brings out the, err, bad Samaritan in North Carolina residents…
Between Tony Matelli’s The Sleepwalker sculpture freaking out the students at Wellesley College, and a homeless Jesus upsetting a neighbourhood in North Carolina, the [...]
Child’s Play
I was disappointed during last week’s GOMA visit to see that Michael Parekowhai’s lovely elephant statue The World Turns had been cordoned off. I’m not [...]
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