Hamish Keith: Auckland's opaque public art plan
Subscriber contentBy Hamish Keith in Cultural Curmudgeon
Issue 3814 6th Jun 2013
Public art is not just art in public places.
Hamish Keith
(@hamish_keith) Without actually intending to, Hamish Keith has done almost everything there is to do in the arts. In 1958 he started work as a student assistant at the Auckland Art Gallery and 60 years later is now self-employed as a cultural curmudgeon and cultural odd job man. In the bits in between he has written a couple of histories of New Zealand art, stood for parliament, made television documentaries, been a television arts reporter, radio interviewer, written television drama and television criticism, written DIY books on separation and divorce, been National President of Actors Equity, Chair of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, newspaper columnist, restaurant critic, Chair of the National Gallery, led the ill-fated Heart of the Nation cultural review and done lots of other stuff best forgotten.
Tackling a tsunami of outrage
Subscriber contentBy Hamish Keith in Cultural Curmudgeon
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
It might be time for Te Papa to explain its reformation plans in plain English.
The slaughter of the isms
Subscriber contentBy Hamish Keith in Cultural Curmudgeon
Issue 3810 9th May 2013
Goldie was on the wrong side of history with his tirade against modern art.
Cloaked in mystery
Subscriber contentBy Hamish Keith in Cultural Curmudgeon
Issue 3808 24th Apr 2013
Piecing together the story of Chairman Mao's korowai.
Mind your languages
Subscriber contentBy Hamish Keith in Commentary
Issue 3806 11th Apr 2013
Cultural diversity is something to embrace
Europe's high standards
Subscriber contentBy Hamish Keith in Cultural Curmudgeon
Issue 3804 28th Mar 2013
As Europe shows, apartment blocks can be elegant and civilised.
The descent of man
1 CommentsBy Hamish Keith in Cultural Curmudgeon
Issue 3802 14th Mar 2013
Creative New Zealand: an oxymoron, if ever there was, says Hamish Keith.
Ralph Hotere: 1931-2013
By Hamish Keith in Cultural Curmudgeon
Issue Listener Plus 3741 24th Feb 2013
Along with a handful of other 20th-century New Zealand painters, Hotere built a powerful and enduring bridge between two cultures.
Good design takes a soaking
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Issue 3798 14th Feb 2013
An addition to Amsterdam’s Stedelijk museum that seems grossly out of time and place.
Making a mockery
Subscriber contentBy Hamish Keith in Cultural Curmudgeon
Issue 3796 31st Jan 2013
Christopher Finlayson needs to remember he’s minister for the arts, not against them.