Thursday, August 28, 2014

Biography on art dealer Peter McLeavey wins book of the year award


Jill Trevelyan's biography of legendary art dealer Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the 1960s has shaped New Zealand art, has won the 2014 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award. The finalists for this year's award included Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize winning novel The LuminariesRead more...

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Biennale of Sydney announces artistic director for 2016


Stephanie Rosenthal has been named as the artistic director of the 2016 Biennale of Sydney. Currently based in London, Rosenthal has been Chief Curator at the Hayward Gallery since 2007, having previously worked at the Haus der Kunst in Munich as Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art. She was also one of three curators who realised a national section of the first biennial in Cartenga, Columbia earlier this year.
Image: Stephanie Rosenthal

Monday, August 4, 2014

Coming up at Starkwhite


SIGNALS responds to the changing face of Auckland, a multi-cultural city with a rapidly changing demographic, where the mix of European, Maori and Pacific Island cultures is being enriched by new New Zealanders, notably from Asia.

The exhibition brings together artworks by Asian artists who show with Starkwhite, along with others whose work engages with traditional and contemporary art practice in Asia – work that speaks to Auckland’s Asian communities who form a growing audience for contemporary art, with the potential to expand the domestic art market.

Artists in the exhibition include: Billy Apple (NZ/US), Stella Brennan (NZ) Trenton Garratt (NZ), Jin Jiangbo (CN), Seung Yul Oh (NZ/KR), John Reynolds (NZ), Layla Rudneva-Mackay (NZ) and Yuk King Tan (HK) and Wang Dawei (CN).

SIGNALS runs from 9 August to 6 September.
Image: Billy Apple, THE ARTIST WILL LIVE FOREVER (Chinese) 2013, uv impregnated ink on canvas, 618 x 1000mm