The city's mayor said a proposed restructure could compromise the gallery's ability to attract and present major exhibitions.
Photography is kind of chimerical; it can be almost anything you want it to be. It is such a powerful medium and that is why I took it up—- I could almost feel it in my bones.
In 2002 young Auckland-based artist Yvonne Todd was surprise winner of the inaugural Walters Prize, New Zealand’s premier contemporary art award. Tempting the ire of conservative critics, prize judge Harald Szeemann made the insightfully deleterious statement that Todd's was ‘the work that irritated me the most.’...
I worry that the idea of curators as authors has been downgraded. I'd like to see more extroverted curating.
Born in Korea in 1981, Seung Yul Oh moved to New Zealand in 1997 and graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2005. He has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Korea. In 2013 he was recipient of the SEMA Nanji Residency in Seoul and in 2011 was recipient of the Harriet Friedlander New York Residency, supported by...
