Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki : a place for art / Place for art Toi o Tamaki : a place for art Toi o Tamaki Chris Saines ; managing editor, Iain Sharp ; contributors, John Walsh & Bernard Makoare ; photography, Patrick Reynolds. - 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm

New era / Chris Saines -- Chronology of Auckland Art Gallery : 1888-2013 -- Site visits/ Fiona Connor -- Decommission: a series of photographs / Jennifer French -- Rethinking Auckland Art Gallery : Design Director Richard Francis-Jones in conversation with John Walsh -- Consultants and contractors for development project -- Construction diary: August 2008-September 2011 -- 2011 development project awards -- Toi o Tāmaki Māori dimension experience / Bernard Makoare -- Māori dimension commissions: Fred Graham, Arnold Wilson and Anthony Wilson, Lonnie Hutchinson -- Major collection donors -- Collection -- Contemporary commissions: Choi Jeong Hwa, Kate Newby, Jeppe Hein.

Discusses and documents the award-winning redevelopment of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, which opened in September 2011. Textual and photographic contributions chart the building process and history of the gallery and its collection. Chapters are devoted to the Māori and contemporary artists dimensions, commissioned to conincide with the reopening.

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Art museums--New Zealand--Auckland
Art--Exhibitions

N3977 / .S256 2013

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