The Wellingtonista

Category: Art

October 13, 2010

Music vs Art = Open City

City Gal­lery is cur­rently exhib­it­ing Round­about, a major col­lec­tion of bold, bright and wicked-as works from emer­ging artists from around the world. It’s well worth a vis­it. Part of Round­about is 48,000 Revolu­tions, a piece by Fly­ing Nun founder Roger Shep­herd. He’s selec­ted 24 hours worth of songs, which ran­domly play. There is also – and […]

Robyn
Art / Music
1 Comment
March 16, 2010

The rugby sculpture

A pro­pos­al was unveiled yes­ter­day for a Weta Work­shop-designed rugby-themed sculp­ture to grace the city, some­where, In Time For The Rugby World Cup.

The sculp­ture is highly sym­bol­ic, with the Dom­Post provid­ing a list of all the sym­bol­ism, but what does the sculp­ture most resemble?

Robyn
Art / Sport
17 Comments
June 10, 2009

A quiet night in the suburbs

Spot­ted at the Rail­way Sta­tion is this hil­ari­ous anti-graf­fiti ad:

Worst date ever

Find out what this nice young sub­urb­an couple are up to after the jump.

Robyn
Art / Politics
8 Comments
March 11, 2008

Letterboxes for Writers & Readers Week

You talkin' to ME?

I’m just guess­ing that the reas­on the let­ter­box out­side Bor­ders Book­store in Lamb­ton Quay has been hap­pily talk­ing to itself (pos­sibly with Emily Per­kins’ voice) all week, has some­thing to do with Writers & Read­ers Week.

That NZ Post are spon­sors of the week kind of sup­ports that the­ory.

Has any­one heard any oth­er postal paraphernalia talk­ing to them?

Please say it’s not just me…

llew
Art
9 Comments
March 6, 2008

Hutty goodtimes

The Hutt is a seeth­ing mass of cul­ture (as if you did­n’t know), and at the moment there is a par­tic­u­larly splen­did out­door exhib­i­tion of sculp­ture, Shape Shifter. The art works are for sale, and we at the Wel­ling­tonista Towers feel a few would look just the thing in the foy­er. The exhib­i­tion is at the Civic Gar­dens, next to the Hor­ti­cul­tur­al Hall and oppos­ite the Dowse.

Why not make a real trip of it, and come out on Sat­urday for the Petone Fiesta. This street car­ni­val fea­tures a vibrant and eclect­ic mix of music, food, theatre, arts and crafts. A cer­tain shop may even be open espe­cially late for the fun , and a cer­tain shop­keep­er may be guzz­ling grog to make the fun fun­ner, but that is anoth­er story…

Petone Fiesta, Jack­son St, 6pm-10pm 8th March.

Shape Shifter, Civic Gar­dens, 22 Feb­ru­ary – 16 March.

Martha Craig
Art / Festival / Hutt Valley
0 Comment
March 3, 2008

A city littered with poetry

Now, every­body has seen the poetry which seems to appear just about every­where down near the lagoon and around Te Papa, right?

This one took me by sur­prise though.

Fiona Kidman, Speaking with my grandmothers

It’s Fiona Kid­man, and is in such a com­par­at­ively out-of-the-way place I lit­er­ally stumbled across it.

The full text of the poem is here.

But can you guess where the pic­ture was taken?

Che Tibby
Art
12 Comments
February 28, 2008

Homage to Duchamp

Here’s anoth­er one of the wee guys in this series of tem­por­ary sculp­tures:

Gargoyle temporary sculpture

Quite an appro­pri­ate loc­a­tion, atop the long-aban­doned toi­lets and amid the con­struc­tion of the new Cour­tenay Place park.

Tom
Art
19 Comments
February 19, 2008

Sooooo… we gonna ban this too?

waitangi park

Just ask­ing.

Che Tibby
Art
5 Comments
February 18, 2008

Solace in the Wind – Max Patte

Say hi to my new favour­ite statue.

Solace in the Wind

I edited out his privates.

Che Tibby
Art
19 Comments
February 7, 2008

Sculpture Garden

This is one of my favour­ite places in Wel­ling­ton:

… and if any­one ever tries to do it harm, as I’ve heard rumours of hap­pen­ing in the past, well… they just bet­ter watch out.

Sorry for the crappy photo. Stu­pid phone. Looks like I also man­aged to catch a fly­ing rat in full, uh, flight.

stephen clover
Art
26 Comments