Friday, 15 July 2011
Auckland Art Fair
New Zealand's premier contemporary art event returns to Auckland's harbour front, the inaugural event in the new, purpose-built, Viaduct Events Centre.
Come and see Whitespace at the Art Fair and check out the public
programme:
Highlights of the public programme are the Friday, August 5
keynote lecture from the colourful and outspoken Knight Landesman,
the New York publisher of Artforum, which is the art
world's version of a Vogue or Rolling Stone.
(Bookings are essential.) He'll take his audience inside the art
world arguing that it takes more than talent to make an artist
successful but interconnected relationships right through the value
chain.
There will be daily artist talks including from Australian Linde
Ivimey on her own work, Los Angeles artist Dave Hullfish Bailey on
his collaboration with aboriginal activist and playwright Sam
Watson and New Zealander Gretchen Albrecht.
A panel of art dealers from New Zealand and Australia will
answer the questions you've always wanted to ask but never had the
opportunity or courage to do so and a debate on whether art in
advertising is still art with artist Dick Frizzell, self appointed
curmudgeon and art expert Hamish Keith and adman, Paul Catmur on
the panel.
A lively discussion is expected on the role of philanthropy and
the case for supporting the arts financially through public
endowments, private giving or government tax incentives as
introduced by many countries around the world to ensure a healthy
and flourishing cultural sector.
Metro magazine will also present True Stories Told
Live, with seven people from different areas in the arts
including artists, a photographer, an academic, writer and
publisher Knight Landesman telling their own stories.
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