2014 list

1. Fire destroys John Matthews art collection
2. Artist protest gives the shove to long-term Biennale of Sydney sponsor
3. Robert Leonard’s first exhibition at the City Gallery
4. Luke Willis Thompson wins the Walters Prize
5. Rick Ellis gets the Te Papa job, so now what?

Newby at Oriental Parade

 

Me time

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Adam Art Gallery
Te Papa
City Gallery Wellington
Auckland Art Gallery
Christchurch Art Gallery
The Dowse Art Museum
The Suter Art Gallery
Dunedin Public Art Gallery

TRENDS AT ART BASEL MIAMI 2014

Via Jessica Johnson's Facebook page:

December 8 at 1:11pm · Houston, TX, United States ·

If anyone is interested. Here's the art trends that were evident in various combination over every booth at Art Basel Miami.

- inkjet prints on canvas using imagery sourced from the web
- decorative fabrics wrapped around stretcher bars and presented as paintings
- rainbow gradients
- compounds poured on canvas with airbrushed shadow effects
- simplistic emoticon imagery (palm trees, rainbows, clouds, smiley faces, etc)
- clumpy ceramics with sloppy glazes
- exposed stretcher bars
- dirt as a medium on canvas
- framed photographs without glass
- process abstraction
- metal as a surface for painting, screen prints, etc
 
What was absent;
- video art
- neons
- work with any political content (or any content that wasn't about process and/or materials)