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Baha'i Martyrs of Iran 14th December 2009 - 7th February 2010 |
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ey! iran Exhibition 14th December 2009 - 7th February 2010 |
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Duality of Exile 14 December 2009 - 7 February 2010 Whangarei Art Museum brings to light one of the most notable and more obscure treasures of the national art collection at Te Papa - ‘Tossa’ 1936 - rarely exhibited and now brought to Northland, tells an incredible story of survival, spirit and tenacity throughout the dire days of Fascism in Europe |
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Sweet As 3rd November - 6th December 2009 View Visit and Experience this sound ‘popping’ - sweet smelling and multi-sensory installation of luscious confectionary colours and an accompanying collections-based exhibition designed for sight-affected and disabled art enthusiasts. Come smell the spring roses in the Rose Gardens and view the art museum collection, including the recently returned C. F. Goldie painting, and learn about some ‘new ways of seeing’. An exhibition designed to celebrate those with disabilities in our community and a more inclusive way of ‘seeing’. |
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John Ioane 31 August - 26 October 2009 Seven years in the making - whangarei art museum is proud to announce this major survey exhibition of 25 years of creative art by one of new zealand / aotearoa's leading pacific island artists. |
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Petrus van der Velden & Rembrandt 29 June - 23 August, 2009 For the past five hundred years, Dutch and Flemish artists have been renowned for tracing new pathways in the pictorial language of human culture. Dutch painters pioneered an extraordinary lineage of still-life painting, domestic interiors and marine painting including an exemplary etching tradition. |
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Plumb Lines 9 March - 21 June, 2009 Every artist, of any generation choosing to portray aspects of our land within their creative ethos, views the landscape through a lens of their own timeframe and attitudes. Even a photograph is a constructed statement of interpretation – a selective process. The next exhibition at the art museum chooses the metaphor of the land surveyor’s theodolite, the first draughtsmen from the colonial era to document the New Zealand landscape though their intrepid art making. |
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Len Castle 15 December 2008 - 1 February, 2009 Whangarei Museum is proud to premiere this substantive survey exhibition of a multi award winning Northland resident artist before its national tour of New Zealand. |
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