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Big arts blog The Flaneur seeks NZ reviewers
The Flaneur is an indie arts and culture journal and we are searching for writers and reviewers to bring news of fine arts and other culture from New Zealand. Enthusiasm is more important than experien...
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flaneur
10 May 2012
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Final Call for Artists Submissions
Articles about art
Articles about art should be about art.
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Formerly
11 Mar 2012
in Educational Presentations
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Formerly
16 May 2012 10:49 am
Mr Andrew Wood, this months Art Hero Award, no shit...
this could be bias... as it's not my cup of tea. That doesn't stop me from having a dialogue with it , however. I work with what is.
Written by
Flake
8 Mar 2012
in Rants
Exhibition of drawings in Queenstown.
Details for an Exhibtion of Drawings in Queenstown (unable to post in events due to technical problems)
Written by
toby.e
29 Feb 2012
in Press Releases
25 Comments
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Mite.Mar
7 Mar 2012 3:10 pm
Git sum enlightenment up ya!
English Saturday Service: Introduction to Buddhism
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thug.4lyfe
21 Feb 2012
in Rants
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Formerly
25 Feb 2012 9:23 pm
arlo edwards
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remo
13 May 2012 2:26 pm
william burroughs was another trustafarian
. wealth creates art..
Written by
Quint Baker
10 Feb 2012
in Rants
43 Comments
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Formerly
7 Mar 2012 9:40 am
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Smoke Damage
Object 5 +
Norm & Noeleen
Fiona Pardington
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Formerly 16 May 2012 10:49 am reply to Articles about art
There are bacon sandwiches and THEN there are bacon sandwiches.
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remo 13 May 2012 2:26 pm reply to arlo edwards
Always creepy reading your thoughts, Infliction. I can see from them why you hide.
However, there being abit of truth in everything, you have to be addressed.
You are not writing to discuss Elizabeth...
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Infliction 4 May 2012 12:35 pm reply to arlo edwards
Pee Wee's Flophouse: Aaron Laurence, Arlo Edwards and Roger Morris
In my opinion Arlo Edwards is a calculating narcissist with a massively overblown sense of entitlement not to mention grievance th...
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marcel.marceau 2 May 2012 5:52 pm reply to Articles about art
Bacon sandwich A bacon sandwich without sauce. A bacon sandwich (also known in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and New Zealand as a bacon butty or bacon sarnie, and as a bacon sanger or ...
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marcel.marceau 2 May 2012 3:02 pm reply to Articles about art
Scrambled eggs Scrambled eggs with bacon Scrambled eggs is a dish made from beaten whites and yolks of eggs (usually chicken eggs). Beaten eggs are put into a hot pot or pan (usually grea...
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thegoldenequation 1 May 2012 10:18 pm reply to arlo edwards
Recently I posted a commet in regards to the images of the Laura Marie Project and regarding Arlo Edwards perceivable false use of this image. The comment suggested that Edwards was directly connected...
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thegoldenequation 1 May 2012 10:18 pm reply to arlo edwards
Recently I posted a commet in regards to the images of the Laura Marie Project and regarding Arlo Edwards perceivable false use of this image. The comment suggested that Edwards was directly connected...
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Up The Arts, by Andrew Paul Wood
Venice 2015
Send Neil and Fiona Pardington to represent New Zealand at the 2015 Venice Biennale. That is all.
20 Oct 2011 6:58 am
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200 Years of Heinrich von Kleist - Why He Still Matters
This year 2011 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist, one of the great German writers of the nineteenth century. You can read his biography here but what I really want to c...
17 Oct 2011 10:34 am
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This delightful and unexpected outburst occurs in the Epilogue of Robert Hughes new book Rome. Te Papa take note:
“Painting and sculpture are silent arts, and deserve silence (not phoney reverence, just quiet) from those who look at them. Let it be inscribed on the portals of the world’s museums: What you will se...
24 Aug 2011 2:19 pm
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WHY TALL POPPY SYNDROME IS A GOOD THING SOMETIMES
According to the Roman author Livy, writing about five centuries later, King Tarquin the Arrogant and his son Sextus Tarquinius (whom Classicists and Shakespeare scholars will recall would grow up to ...
24 Aug 2011 2:18 pm
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Is Tintin gay?
Every time I read a movie magazine Peter Jackson seems to be raping my childhood. Lord of the Rings was bad enough, and The Hobbit will be worse – but not Tintin, please leave me that much.
It was b...
3 Jul 2011 8:42 am
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New Art in the Store
Wolfsshanze
by Jo Lascelles Chester
Oil on canvas
$890
A small child emerges from a camp tent, led by a 'Wolfboy'. Her mother unaware of this, looks out to...
We have ways of making you talk!!
by Jon-Paul Smith
NFS
With Libby now in the hands of The Company it’s time for some answers.
Okay so here&rsqu...
victorian lady
by Lucy Dunckley
acrylic
$250
Watercolour landscape
by Svetlana Orinko
Watercolour
$1,500
A gorgeous framed original water colour by well known Russian born artist Svetlana Orinko. These a...
A Day In The Life Of Rangitoto #2
by Ashley Haynes
$400
This is a series of seven photographs taken from the same spot on Milford Beach in Auckland over th...
The Fortress
by Sarah Watson
Pastel/pencil/acrylic/charcoal
$1,300
Framed. Measurements on enquiry.
"It Doesn't Matter How Crazy He Is, Hes Hot!"
by Quint Baker
Digi
NFS
Don't stop me now, get going and head here to sound cloud for more examples of insane geni...
RAT RODZ
by PAT KELLY
LINES
NFS
