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NewsWin This Tiger Beer x Joe Helmore Painting Valued at $3000
Joe Helmore is a bold, intriguing new contemporary artist on the New Zealand art scene.
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NewsA Giant, Inflatable Quasi-Cathedral is Coming to New Zealand
Enter into an inflated space that looks kind of like the set from a deleted scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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NewsEight Unusual Takes on Portraiture by This Year’s Archibald Finalists
Archie finalists in their own words.
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NewsBMD Thinks Safety is a Place Where Creativity Goes to Die
"There are big challenges with working large scale outdoors, opposed to the fine artist who can sit inside, work in peace on his work with a cup of tea and the heater on. But how boring is that?"
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GuideFive New Art Exhibitions to Brighten Up Your August
Inject a little colour into your wintry existence with these bold new shows.
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NewsBrilliant Things to do in Auckland This August
Everything from an environmental singles event on an island, a talk about intense animal encounters, sardonic observation comedy, and some ballet from across the ditch.
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NewsSydney Art Week Reveals Epic Inaugural Program
Toast Sydney's latest art initiative with a cocktail by an Archibald Prize winner.
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NewsBrilliant Things to Do in Wellington This August
The forecast for a Wellingtonian's social calendar this month is brilliant with a high chance of busy.
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NewsPerfect Match Brings Collaborative Street Art to the Inner West
Street artists get a blank canvas, inner west residents get their very own mural. Everyone wins.
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NewsUnleash Your Inner Awesome with Work-Shop's DIY Classes
From terrarium-building to street art and Japanese flower arranging.
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NewsSeven Treasures from the State Library's Inspiration by Design Exhibition
From Blinky Bill's beginnings to art deco QANTAS ads and Beatrix Potter's early Peter Rabbit drawings.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things Happening in Sydney This Weekend
Whether it's gourmet coffee, old-school hamburgers, indie flicks or the very best Splendour in the Grass sideshows, Concrete Playground has you covered.
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NewsFive Things You're Allowed to Do at Underbelly Arts Festival This Year
Visit a bar that only serves air, stuff your face with Mary's and throw shapes at an art party.
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NewsNigel Milsom's Haunting Portrait Wins the 2015 Archibald Prize
For his Edgar Allan Poe-like portrait of Australian barrister Charles Waterstreet.
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NewsTim Flower on Shooting New Zealand with Camouflage Detection Film
Using camouflage detection film to reinterpret the New Zealand landscape.
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NewsNational Geographic Photographer Steve Winter on Competing with Pictures of Cute, Fluffy Kittens on the Internet
Steve Winter spends six or so months get the shot that you spend six or so seconds looking at.
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NewsArchibald Prize 2015 Finalists and Packing Room Prize Announced
The Australian faces everyone will be talking about for the next few months.
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NewsThis Massive Ball Pit 'Beach' Is Made for Art-Loving Kidults
An ocean of 750,000 recyclable plastic balls has taken over the entire atrium of DC's National Building Museum.
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NewsThe Best Advice and Observations to Come Out of Semi-Permanent 2015
"Nothing I know belongs to me, I'm really just a product of all the people I've met and been exposed to."
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GuideFive Out-of-the-Ordinary New Art Exhibitions to See in July
Bye bye Marina, hello robot attempting to eat a chicken nugget.
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NewsUnderstanding the Work of Marina Abramovic in Five Phases
How the performance artist got from bodily extremes to quiet introspection — and with it, superstardom.
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NewsBrilliant Things to Do in Auckland this July
A photo exhibition that encapsulates 2014, the best local tour of the year, unprofessional professional EDM artists and a live music and film crossbreed are just some of the things that make July a brilliant time to explore this fine city of ours.
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NewsAndy Warhol and Ai Weiwei Double-Billed for NGV's Summer Exhibition
Two of the most groundbreaking artists and craziest cat ladies of our time, in one epic show.
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NewsBrilliant Things to Do in Wellington This July
Play with Lego under the guise of participating in interactive art, see the best local tour of the year, experience the unprofessional professional EDM artists and get your popcorn ready for the annual NZIFF.
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NewsGoogle 'Bad Ass Mother Fucker' to Find Artist and Hacker Evan Roth
He builds fake Google street cars to wreck havoc on the streets, collabs with Jay Z and has a permanent art installation at MoMA.
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Understanding the Work of Marina Abramovic in Five Phases
How the performance artist got from bodily extremes to quiet introspection — and with it, superstardom.
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NewsDegraves Street Underpass to Relaunch Public Art Program
Campbell Arcade's glass cabinets have been rechristened 'The Dirty Dozen'.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Contemporary Artist Joe Helmore
Like his paintings, Joe Helmore is a bit of a pick and mix.
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NewsYoko Ono's One-Off Morning-Inspired Art Event Is Coming to MCA
Meet us on the lawn for free early morning yoga, giant mandala-making and New York-themed brekkie.
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GuideFive New Art Exhibitions Shaking Up June
Visit '70s California, the strip club and the protest barricades.
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NewsKen Griffen's 'Face Value' Distills Superficial Encounters into Art
The Huffer art director's first solo exhibition is a series of disembodied remainders of fleeting relationships.
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NewsThe Australia Council Has Started Suspending Funding to Artists After Budget Cuts
Your calendar of shows to see might be looking a bit lighter a few months from now.
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NewsArtist Stanley Donwood's Retrospective Goes Beyond the Radiohead Album Covers
Now showing at Carriageworks, the artist talks collaborating with Thom Yorke and that time Glastonbury Festival just didn't understand him at all.
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NewsFive Tips for Survival in the Post-Financial Collapse Blackmarket
Scavenge some goods for post-apocalyptic trading in pvi collective's participatory performance.
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NewsArt & About Breaks Its Curfew with a Swim at Paddington Reservoir Gardens
A new art installation brings to the surface the history of Paddington's pocket-sized park.
