Sculpture and Architecture
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Stout Barricade
- 14 Dec 2008
- Eye of the Fish
- For one day only, - Sunday, today, you can see the city barricaded off. By tomorrow, it’ll be gone. It’s part of the Litmus series of One Day Sculpture, and this time has been brought to you by artiste duo Heather and Ivan Morison. It’s called the Journee des Barricades, and to me, seems site specifically reacting to the inspired sculpture outside the Athfield renovation of the o
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This Eye of the Fish newsitem has 8 comments.
- ‘I think Hirst was original – for a start but then he just started pumping out “weird and expensive”. I am hardly an artistic or cultural person but I really stand by the idea that my art is not your art. My personal artistic taste runs to 1970s NZ painte’
- ‘Art and My Life – ok, each to their own. I’ll give you the fact that as an idea, its placement and the fact that it creates discussion, its a success. Personally, I have always found the “art is in the eye of the beholder” and reasonating thing a cop-ou’
- ‘You know, to me art is a lot like wine. It may be a world class bottle worth $1000, but if you don’t like it – its crap. Some experts would say “you just don’t understand it” but I don’t think you should need an art degree to appreciate what you are seei’
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Courtenay Park update
- 6 Aug 2008
- Eye of the Fish
- The simple beauty of rusting steel keeps getting better at Courtenay Park. These pictures speak without words: When the sun is out, the new park gets quite popular, especially on a sunny lunchtime.
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This Eye of the Fish newsitem has 10 comments.
- ‘The clock got damaged by contractors when it was being removed prior ro the revamp, and it's still being fixed. Shouldn't be too far away, though…’
- ‘Hmmm: http://64.207.55.2/project_profile/browserecord.php?-lay=Form%20View&-action=browse&-recid=641’
- ‘Spooky. Very similar. And sad to see that the comments on that, even in Spanish, are still ranting on about the September 11 crash into the Pentagon not having happened at all…. Sigh… conspiracy theories never go away….. “este memorial es mas estupid’
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New Solace
- 10 Feb 2008
- Eye of the Fish
- For those interested: a sneak peak of the new sculpture that will soon be installed at the Chaffers Marina end of the Te Papa promenade.
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- sculpture
- waterfront
