Ralph Hotere: An intimate darkness
Subscriber contentBy Gregory O'Brien in Art
Issue 3800 28th Feb 2013
His work is a descent into the unknown, the mystery at the heart of both art and life.
Artwork, by Peter Campbell - review
Subscriber contentBy Gregory O'Brien in Art
Issue 3796 31st Jan 2013
Artwork is a gracious and graceful valediction for the London Review of Books’ visual linchpin, Peter Campbell.
Artist of the unsteady Earth
By Gregory O'Brien in Art
Issue 3681 27th Nov 2010
For all their mythical resonances and uncanny seismic foresight, Christchurch-born Euan Macleod's paintings remain fundamentally autobiographical.
The light fantastic
By Gregory O'Brien in Art
Issue 3614 15th Aug 2009
Bill Culbert's fascination with electricity began in boyhood, he tells Gregory O'brien, as the wiring behind his life and art is revealed in a new book.
Marketplace or laboratory?
By Gregory O'Brien in Books
Issue 3564 30th Aug 2008
Literature thrives on productive anarchy and a sense of tradition, not bureaucratic and commercial jargon.
The Titirangi cubist
By Gregory O'Brien in Books
Issue 3514 15th Sep 2007
If a new book on Colin McCahon proves one thing, it is that he could be an exquisite painter of Nature.
Playtime
By Gregory O'Brien in Books
Issue 3496 12th May 2007
How generations of New Zealand children imbibed the work of some of our greatest visual artists.
News from the otherside
By Gregory O'Brien in Culture
Issue 3470 11th Nov 2006
How artist Denis O'Connor built verbal pathways from New Zealand back to Ireland.
High Country Weather
By Gregory O'Brien in Culture
Issue 3447 3rd Jun 2006
In 1949 an artist, a composer, a photographer and a poet made an attempt on Mt Aspiring, trying for a new form of film-making. Now, nearly 60 years later, a documentary completes their story.