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Today

Sean Kerr: Bruce danced...

Sean Kerr
at Gus Fisher Gallery Auckland
Reception Today 5:30 pm
Until 9 Oct 2010
 

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Patrick Hartigan
at Brett McDowell Gallery Dunedin
Reception Today 5:30 pm
Until 23 Sep 2010
 

Five Years (2010)

Neil Dawson
at milford galleries queenstown Queenstown
Reception Today 6:00 pm
4 Sep 2010 - 29 Sep 2010
 

Amorphisms (2010)

Christine Cathie
at milford galleries queenstown Queenstown
Reception Today 6:45 pm
4 Sep 2010 - 29 Sep 2010
 
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Article of The Month January 2010
Forum > Artbash >

Business as Usual

all characters are fictional.
Written by william blake 28 Jan 2010
13 Comments
 

 
MR 3 Sep 2010 9:33 am, reply to SYMBOLS
 
MR 3 Sep 2010 9:25 am, reply to Brett Whiteley said:
 
 
b'ert Homme 2 Sep 2010 9:30 pm, reply to 9/11

twenty minutes later, Anna reluctantly

came out of her changing room wearing a bathrobe to hide her nearly naked body from view. For these final shots, she decided to go with...
 
b'ert Homme 2 Sep 2010 9:22 pm, reply to SYMBOLS

timberland boots On September 2nd,

2010 timberland6inch said: Her head was bowed and when she raised white timberland boots it to look at me, she could barely smile without pain....
 
Monkey 2 Sep 2010 1:39 pm, reply to SYMBOLS
 
Monkey 2 Sep 2010 1:32 pm, reply to Brett Whiteley said:
 
cadmium hed 2 Sep 2010 8:58 am, reply to SYMBOLS

the problem with carl jung,

was that he was not well hung..................... jesus
 
 

Up The Arts, by Andrew Paul Wood

SHOOTING DUCKS IN A BUCKET: THE WALTERS PRIZE AGAIN

Thumbing through the pages of Metro (July-August 2010), I was distraught that after only a few brief months of deliciously entertaining bitchiness, the mouthpiece of Auckland’s chattering classes was terminating (with extreme prejudice) the only recently revived Felicity Ferrit. ‘Twas...
27 Jul 2010
1 Comments
 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEXANDER CALDER

(Born July 22, 1898 – Died November 11, 1976)
21 Jul 2010
 

MAURICE ROLLINAT

Here are some of my translations of poems by 19th century French poet Maurice Rollinat. The Cow A cow lay, subdued, drooling at the muzzle, but her eyes were filled with nameless terror while the black bull, wild as a buffalo, watched her belly...
21 Jul 2010
 

GENDER-BENDER MESSIAHS IN MYTH AND FICTION: A SHORT HISTORY

Although usually suppressed and marginalised, there is, surprisingly enough, quite a strong genre in Western Literature that I am choosing to call "Gender-bender Messiah" Lit. To attempt a definition of what I mean, we can go all the way back...
20 Jul 2010
1 Comments
 

SPRINGTIME FOR JOHN KEY

  Hmmm. Is this New Zealand in 2010 or Germany in 1933? The National (Socialist) party is busy cosying up to whatever business interests we have left in this country, telling the independent judiciary its business, crushing democratically elected local government bodies...
18 Jul 2010
3 Comments
 
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Artbash is an online community of New Zealanders who love art and love talking and writing about art. Inside Artbash you will find forums of art criticism, a calendar of exhibitions, a guide to New Zealand art galleries and an online art store where members exhibit and sell their art online.

Forum > Art Theory and History >

SYMBOLS

 Swiss psychoanalyst  Carl Jung , who studied  archetypes , proposed an alternative definition of symbol, distinguishing it from the term  sign . In Jung's view, a sign stands for something known, as a word stands for its referent....
Written by Leonardus 1 Sep 2010
5 Comments
Newest Comment MR 3 Sep 2010 9:33 am
 
Forum > Press Releases >

9/11

  Osama bin Laden:   "I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States...
Written by Leonardus 1 Sep 2010
1 Comment
Newest Comment b'ert Homme 2 Sep 2010 9:30 pm

twenty minutes later, Anna reluctantly

came out of her changing room wearing a bathrobe to hide her nearly naked body from view. For these final shots, she decided to go with...
 
Forum > Practical Art >

Brett Whiteley said:

 'I can't stand mindless purity - I have soaked myself in scepticism and am by nature magnetised to bitterness.'
Written by Leonardus 1 Sep 2010
3 Comments
Newest Comment MR 3 Sep 2010 9:25 am
 
Forum > Architecture >

and the winner is....

Quint Baker.
Written by b'ert Homme 23 Aug 2010
19 Comments
Newest Comment Madgie 29 Aug 2010 4:32 pm

We can’t agree on everything,

but I believe if modern inquisition argues within the boundaries of the imitation of art history ruling over the real world, then the imitation should be...
 
Forum > Artbash >

Story Story Story

It may have come to your attention that many aspects of life require us to perform a balancing act. Well (as unbalanced as producing art is) the balancing act philosophy plagues an artists life also. Have you ever come across...
Written by Quint Baker 14 Aug 2010
16 Comments
Newest Comment Helen MacDuff 26 Aug 2010 2:03 pm
 
Forum > Questions & Answers >

Dealer Galleries...

Dealer Gallery suggestions...
Written by Helen MacDuff 13 Aug 2010
15 Comments
Newest Comment Helen MacDuff 17 Aug 2010 5:54 pm

Quoting Hamish: Helen, I

personally don't find your paintings very spontaneous to look at, at least not as an end result. The right place to present your work has...
 
Forum > Press Releases >

NZFF features doco on Wellington artist Gordon Crook

There is an arty movie in the NZFF, I've been told it's good. Screening in Chch on Tuesday at the Regent 12noon plus again on Saturday 14th at 11am... http://www.nzff.co.nz/... World Premiere...
Written by Artbasher 8 Aug 2010
13 Comments
Newest Comment b'art Homme 12 Aug 2010 9:15 am

Went to Gordon's parallel exhibition

at Ron Barber's shed/workshop/gallery in Aro. Not bad - cute, bit old Matissey hat, visual aesthetics, some content ...even some red dots... Imagine Thag...
 
Forum > Artbash >

CON - TEMPORARY

suggested title and theme for next Auckland Trienalle
Written by b'ert Homme 4 Aug 2010
6 Comments
Newest Comment b'ert Homme 15 Aug 2010 1:52 pm
 
 

New Events

Joker series

Rewa Walia
at The Jean Shed fashion n art Auckland
Until 1 Nov 2010
 

Amorphisms (2010)

Christine Cathie
at milford galleries queenstown Queenstown
Reception Today 6:45 pm
4 Sep 2010 - 29 Sep 2010
 

Five Years (2010)

Neil Dawson
at milford galleries queenstown Queenstown
Reception Today 6:00 pm
4 Sep 2010 - 29 Sep 2010