Travelling overseas and meeting the local artists is a crucial part of Shani Pillai and Joji Jacob’s working lives. Covid-19 put a sharp halt to that but enabled this energetic…
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Members were treated to a very special evening in February for an exclusive floortalk and viewing of 'Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings' at the City Gallery. Caleb Gordon, Public…
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David Alsop admits he has “lived and breathed” Ans Westra and her work for the last fifteen years. In his talk to the Friends he gave a fascinating account of…
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Richard Shaw tells us he loves his day job; research and writing in general and footnotes in particular -there are nearly 30 pages of them in his family memoir, The…
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Melvin Day: A Modernist Perspective, is a survey show of the artist who lived in Seatoun for many years, and whose Wellington landscapes are familiar to many.
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Judge Arthur Tomkins presented mystery, intrigue and surprises in his lecture about French Art Historian Rose Valland, heroine of the French Resistance, and the fight against art crime during war.
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Indian hand-crafted textiles starting dying out when England started producing its own cotton cloth. However, a revival occurred in the 20th century.
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A group of 22 members of the Friends of Te Papa travelled to Kaikoura for a five day trip, full of anticipation at the prospect of exploring some of the…
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Two New Zealand artists were the subject of this visit, Maori artist Brett Graham known for his large-scale sculptures and painter Judy Millar.
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