Art / February 2012
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First Contact: Michael Tuffery’s spectacular projections at Te Papa
- Wellington Scoop
- Accepted from Wellington Scoop features
- Tagged as:
- te-papa
Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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February 2012: New work by Regan Gentry
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- Colin McCahon’s famous waterfall paintings are being realised with an 11m high waterfall, McCahon Incarnation by Regan Gentry, installed on the western (city library) end of Wellington’s City Gallery. The work opened on 23 February 2012 as part of City Gallery’s Obstinate Object sculpture exhibition and runs until June 2012. The exhibition coincides with Wellington’s International Arts Festival. McCahon Incarnation is the third work the Wellington Sculpture Trust has commissioned from Regan, others being, Subject to Change (2007) on Karo Drive, and Green Islands, originally on the Plinths and now in the Botanic Garden.
- Accepted from WST news
- Tagged as:
- exhibitions
- libraries
Wellington City Gallery, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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February 2012: New Four Plinths installation
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- A dramatic new sculpture, the third in the Trusts’s Four Plinth Temporary Sculpture Project, was opened 22 February 2012 by Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown. The artwork, titled Out of the Dusk, is by eminent New Zealand Sculptor Joanna Langford. It comprises four glass cubes, one on each plinth, with interior dioramas of green silage plastic and fine constructed wire objects.
- Accepted from WST news
- Automatically tagged as:
- sculpture
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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No evidence that stoats have impacted on Kapiti Island’s birds
- Te Papa's blog
- Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand’s premier bird sanctuaries. It is home to nationally important populations of little spotted kiwi, kaka, North Island saddleback, stitchbird and North Island robin, as well as other threatened bird species. The island was considered to be free of all introduced mammal pests after rats were eradicated in 1996. [...]
- Accepted from Te Papa blog feed
- Tagged as:
- kapiti
- conservation
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