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Business as Usual

all characters are fictional.
Written by william blake 28 Jan 2010
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Up The Arts, by Andrew Paul Wood

Radio New Zealand

To continue with my theme of bashing National for bashing art, let us now turn to the cuts demanded of that most innofensive of cultural roosters, Radio New Zealand. Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman is a medical doctor by profession (presumably of...
21 Feb 2010
 

Art in schools

I have a problem with the way Right-ish governments treat the arts. Actually, I have a problem with the Right in general. Not that I’m particularly pro-Labour, you understand (any ideologies I subscribe to are strictly ad hoc), but rather I...
14 Feb 2010
5 Comments
 

From icanhascheeburger.com - an excellent definition of art

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12 Jan 2010
 

Air New Zealand's New Uniforms

Oh my Gawd ! WTF? They have gone from drab Thunderbirds in mourning by Zambesi, to a dress by Trelise "explosion in granny's closet" Cooper that I swear I last saw on Dame Edna circa 1988. Perhaps the American historian Robin Winks...
10 Jan 2010
2 Comments
 

IF YOU LIKED AVATAR, YOU WILL LOVE...

Given that everything that Hollywood has produced since ET is derivative, it strikes me that if you enjoyed the movie Avatar , you will probably enjoy the following novels exploring similar themes – I know I do: The Sparrow ,...
5 Jan 2010
6 Comments
 
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Forum > Art Theory and History >

Death to the Antipathetic Notion of Research-Based Artists & Artworks

If I have to look at, listen to an artists talk about, or read about another research-based artwork I swear I'll get the dry-heaves.
Written by bunrush 9 Mar 2010
8 Comments
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Forum > Press Releases >

Call for Applications: Rita Angus Artist's Residency 2010

The Wellington Institute of Technology is delighted to announce that applications are now open for the Rita Angus Artist’s Residency for 2010.   The Residency supports an artist...
Written by st_luke 7 Mar 2010
17 Comments
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TROLLS

Parochialism
Written by william blake 1 Mar 2010
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Forum > Reviews >

What the

My first 'Fringe Festival' experience since moving to Wellington, in a little gallery off Dixon Street. I got there quite late,I think, as the action was just wrapping up. A video art piece playing... looped street scenes accompanied by...
Written by Enoch 28 Feb 2010
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Newest Comment moresoap 11 Mar 2010 3:52 am
 
Forum > Architecture >

Early warning signs for political fascism.

The boundaries of morality lie at varying degrees of perception. External Immorality will amplify into internal morality and vice versa. The result is either Art, or immorality in reality.
Written by Pan 26 Feb 2010
18 Comments
Newest Comment moresoap 11 Mar 2010 3:44 am
 
Forum > Off-site Articles >

Take Me To The Kittens...

Artist Liam Gerrard 25 has produced a 2.5 metres tall charcoal and acrylic work dubbed the "Face of Evil" and is the portrait of Clayton Weatherston, the convicted murder of his former girlfriend, Sophie Elliott. It is one of 93...
Written by Quint Baker 24 Feb 2010
144 Comments
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Forum > Art Theory and History >

The Dead End Deception

According to Plato art seemed so injurious to the pursuit of truth that it should be banned from the ideal state.  His translators suggest his primary concern was irrationality in art and the relationship of it to knowledge.  How interesting...
Written by Flipper 19 Feb 2010
62 Comments
Newest Comment moresoap 11 Mar 2010 3:45 am
 
Forum > Rants >

Is all art terrorism?

How can one find peace? Today I was having a fag at the back porch, sitting in a dark green plastic chair staring at some pea pods strewn on a vine down an old aqua colored garden wagon. And I...
Written by Quint Baker 13 Feb 2010
51 Comments
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