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
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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