Jpeg fatigue and the art world online
Sophie McKinnon looks at the art world's evolving relationship with digital necessity.
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Jan 13, 20214 min read
Ramped up
In New York, Sophie McKinnon visits an exhibition that explores the fundamental tension between autonomy and dependency.
Oct 27, 20203 min read
Old feelings
Ed Atkins mixes the comfortable with the grotesque, survival with entropy, and the literal with the "super-vicious artificial".
Jan 16, 20203 min read
All the same
Avenal McKinnon considers Yoko Ono's new and recreated works in her Beijing exhibition 'Golden Ladders'.
Jan 6, 20203 min read
Hockney in China
Avenal McKinnon explores 'The Arrival of Spring', a new and innovative exhibition by David Hockney, who chooses an iPad as his medium.
Jan 1, 20203 min read
In the world of nincompoops
Frances Upritchard brings her humorous sculptural figures to a new exhibition in Los Angeles, writes June Fairhead.
Dec 25, 20193 min read
Leader of the pack
American artist, Bill Viola explores questions of existence, life and the forces around us in his recent exhibition 'Transformation'.
Dec 18, 20192 min read
Temporal landscapes
Wanaka-based Martin Hill and Philippa Jones draw attention to environmental degradation in their exhibition 'Temporal Landscapes'.
Dec 5, 20194 min read
Genuine reproduction
After completing an art residency in South China, Emily Hartley-Skudder returns to Aotearoa and discusses what she learnt and created.
Oct 17, 20194 min read
Poetry commotion
Investigating relationships, systems, and equilibrium, Richard Tuttle marries language and image in a poem that unfolds as an installation.
Sep 3, 20194 min read
Dance cycles
An NYC choreographer uses an evolving dance residency to challenge our notions of stasis. Sophie McKinnon reports.
Aug 15, 20195 min read
Invisible labour
In Carlos Sandoval de León’s exhibition at Cindy Rucker Gallery in New York, a conscious system of change is operating in situ.
Jun 13, 20194 min read
Seeing everything
Sophie McKinnon revisits Yayoi Kusama's most enduring works, and finds euphoria and invigoration in the artists reflections of the world.
May 3, 20194 min read
Eco system
Sophie McKinnon looks into the world of New York artist, Brook Hsu, and finds eco-works that reveal processes of reflection and healing.
Feb 15, 20194 min read
Solid states
Otobong Nkanga explores the contested social and political histories of colonialism through performance, drawing, photography, and more.
Nov 7, 20182 min read
Blind navigations
Artist and performance designer Sam Trubridge turns a five year old dream of performing on the Bonneville Salt Flats into a reality.
Sep 27, 20183 min read
Knives and neighbourhoods
This year at CONDO, an international gallery exchange, a collaboration with New Zealand gallery Hopkinson Mossman turns heads.
Sep 7, 20182 min read
Some like it hot (or not)
Encountering pastel hues and intense heat, Emily Hartley-Skudder has just arrived in Xiamen for a three month artists residency.
Sep 4, 20184 min read
Waves in the desert
New Zealand artist Sam Trubridge finds an unexpected oasis at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Aug 20, 20181 min read
Viva Mexico
Mexican artist Eduardo Abaroa is in Wellington as the latest Te Whare Hēra international artist in residence.
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