Art, Life, TV, Etc.

On climate change: the awful truth.

In 1936, artist Rita Angus travelled from Christchurch to Cass with two fellow artists, Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell, for ten days...

So far I owe $2.50.

Sometime around the middle of the 1960s, artist Bill Sutton used to fly regularly between Christchurch and Wellington. He'd been appoint...

No. 2 in an occasional series . "Mum, what's this button for?" "That's the ejector seat."

A photographer asked to take our picture yesterday. "I'm a proper photographer," he said. "Works in the public art ...

Every day the small guy has to fill out his homework exercise book with a description of the book he's currently reading, and do his sp...

Socrates: Annoying. "Mum, you know Socrates? I think he would have been really annoying because when the other philosophers said ...

Last night I watched TV3's premiere of The Block NZ . It's a DIY home renovation reality show based on an Australian model in which ...

Central London, 1961.   Photographer: Charles W. Cushman. Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection. Via The Retronaut. My brother and ...

On Sunday we visited 'Waters Above, Waters Below', an installation by artists Hannah and Aaron Beehre at the Christchurch Art Galler...

Mental health services in Brisbane. Cheap!

I am deeply, deeply saddened to learn of the death of William McAloon, one of New Zealand's foremost curators and art historians. An o...

Inspired by local art teacher Henry Sunderland's instructions in The Press , to celebrate Easter this year we made bunnies out of plast...

All over the city today, to commemorate the anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake, people have been placing flowers in the tens of thou...

Colin McCahon, Tomorrow will be the same but not as this is , 1958,  solpah and sand on board, Collection Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna...

I'd meant to blog this much earlier, of course; put it down to what in the local vernacular is called "quake brain", a state o...

"If Daddy did a massive fart, and you lit it with a match, then BOOM! There'd be a new sun." The small guy explains the fo...

On a walk to Mona Vale last year, my three-year-old daughter made a sculpture. It was a few days after the big earthquake in June, and i...

That was 2011: my year in mobile phone pictures. (With acknowledgments to Philip Matthews, whose idea this was .) Pyne Gould Corporati...