Talks and conversations on the future of art museum collections.

Fri 6 - Sun 8 Mar 2020
Len Lye Centre Cinema
$100 waged
$60 unwaged

Booking essential.
Tickets available online and in store.

This elegantly designed set of three black books is part of a new survey at the Tinguely Museum (in Basel) geared to introduce Len Lye’s films, photograms, paintings, drawings, writings and kinetic sculpture to a European (especially Swiss and German) audience—an expansion of the Pompidou show he had in 2000.

Ruth Buchanan’s The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong marks the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s 50-year anniversary. Lucinda Bennett writes about the discomfort, and the sheer joy of discovery.

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery has expanded its curatorial team, appointing several new roles, including an Indigenous Curator of Contemporary Art.

...For the last 50 years, the region’s largest city, New Plymouth, has been home to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, a contemporary art museum that has exhibited and collected chiefly New Zealand art. To mark this anniversary, Govett-Brewster’s co-directors, Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, who joined the museum last year, invited artist Ruth Buchanan to develop an exhibition of work from the collection.

Congratulations David Clegg for winning an AAANZ Art Association of Australia & New Zealand award for ‘loca projects / correction’ (New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery).

To celebrate the 50th birthday of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth, Walters Prize-winning artist Ruth Buchanan has rehung their collection, bringing previously unseen works and skeletons out of the closet. Her new exhibition The scene in which I find myself/Or, where does my body belong examines the politics of a public art collection: Who’s in it? Who’s missing? Jim and Mary Barr find out.

While in Ngāmotu New Plymouth for the opening of the exhibition The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, artist Ruth Buchanan spoke with Te Korimako breakfast show host Tamzyn Pue about whānau, the exhibition and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

Ethical fashion label Kowtow and Aotearoa New Zealand’s contemporary art museum, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, are launching a limited edition collection in collaboration with artist Ruth Buchanan.

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is celebrating its golden anniversary and the woman who made it all possible with an especially brewed drop of amber nectar.

An artist who spent months on a residency investigating the Govett Brewster Art Gallery's policy on buying and selling work for its art collection, has curated an exhibition to celebrate the gallery's 50th anniversary.

New Plymouth is home to the Govett Brewster which has championed contemporary art since it opened in February 1970.

Ruth Buchanan, who won the 2018 Walters Art Prize is allocating a decade to each room in the gallery and has chosen work by almost 200 artists, the most artworks shown at one time at the Gallery.

Lynn Freeman called Ruth in Berlin to ask if she chose her favourite art or what were considered the most important works for the show, or if she went in a different direction.

The most comprehensive exhibition of Len Lye’s art to be seen in Europe has opened at the Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland. Featuring his kinetic sculptures, paintings, photograms, drawings, models and films, the exhibition occupies four large galleries, and examines in detail the full oeuvre of New Zealand’s most acclaimed international artist.