PETERSEN MUSEUM UPS ITS VINTAGE CAR SHOW IN A LOS ANGELES VAULT OF AUTO-INGENUITY
To boost attendance, the Petersen Automotive Museum opens a special collection of 150 historic vehicles, stored in a “vault” below its galleries, to the public. See all the Photos.
Really fancy, old American vintage cool. Take a virtual tour @pic view.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 26.12.12~
MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Way cool is modern architecture New Zealand. Totally tour worthy as a modern structure. :)
A JETTY GETTY EVERYWHERE – CAMERA: NICK MILLAR PHOTOGRAPHY
on the jetty of an expansive life we walk, across the waters of energy's electricity, over the skies into imaginations and minds of people and places far away. ... because water is, we are here. (more…)
TIM TEBOW & CAMILLA BELLE ATTEND SCHIAPARELLI & PRADA’S HOMAGE NIGHT OF FASHION
Sports Fashion News: Tim Tebow and Camilla Belle attend the Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2012 in New York City. Too funny. Credits: Dimitrios Kambouris – Getty Images–Story at the Examiner.
The Events Press Release follows:
Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada’s Impossible Conversations at Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute May 10–August 19, 2012 (more…)
JENNIFER ANISTON, SALMA HAYAK, CAMERON DIAZ – LACMA ART + FILM PRESENTED BY GUCCI
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2012 Art + Film Gala presented by Gucci, Jennifer Aniston caught up with her Latina gal pals, Salma Hayak and Cameron Diaz in Los Angeles. Photos – NewsCorp. Art fashion fun. A night of smiles on the town.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 29.10.12~
DREW BARRYMORE AND WILL KOPELMAN ATTEND LACMA 2012 ART + FILM GALA EVENT
Hollywood producer Drew Barrymore and hubby Wil Kopelman took some time away from parenting to attend LACMA 2012 Art + Film Gala presented by Gucci.
The couple were spotted talking to Jenn and Justin at the event.
Old school Hollywood, Drew is such a sweet, bubbly, smart, creative person - funny!
A tomboy sense of humor. She’s Hollywood tough, yet sweet with it. A rare combo.
[Photo: Donato Sardella - Getty Images - People Magazine]
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 29.10.12~
ABOUT THEIR ART – ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD’S STAR TEMPLATE OF CALIFORNIA
Eli Broad:
Not everyone in New Zealand has had it sweet on arrival. Some of our best peoples endured hardship on arrival in New Zealand. As immigrants they rose above the ranks to be stellar New Zealanders.
America with a population of 310 million people (US Census data 2010), is a nation founded on immigrants largely. It is a melting pot.
When people succeed their stories in the USA is one of great strength in a land of huge opportunity too. With that thought in mind, I was thinking of Eli Broad today. His star template as an American provides a lesson (or several) in attainment.
He was an immigrant: Eli was born in the Bronx, raised in Detroit. His folks Lithuanian immigrants. He learned from their lives, That at the end of the day, that’s how it is. Life getting better is about an individual choice. He chose to improve his family’s lot.
Property was how he started: At 20, Eli was able to buy his first patch of land.
He started his own building business: By 1957, Eli was already married to Edythe. He co-founded Kaufman & Broad in 1957. Eli took a loan of $25k from his wife’s folks and became one of USA’s biggest home builders in the affordable housing market. His passion for business was an ability to grow a good team. (more…)
GOW LANGSFORD ART
See it to believe it in steel.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 11.10.12~
WORDS: FORGIVE + FORGIVENESS
words: forgive: to decide that you will not be angry with someone who has
offended, upset, or harmed you.
forgiveness: the action or feeling of forgiving someoneMD online. Artwork – Te Karearea, Artist: Sole, Greymouth.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 10.10.12~
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS WELCOMES ARI EMANUEL ON BOARD 2012
Ari Emanuel has joined the The Museum of Contemporary Arts Board.
LA Times reports: “MOCA’s announcement said that over the last two years Emanuel has been “instrumental” in helping the museum forge a relationship with Google that led to Monday’s launch of the MOCAtv channel on Google-owned YouTube.”
For more artsy fun, jet here.
[Photo: Vince Bucci - Getty Images].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand
JACQUES ARAGO ART & FRENCH MAORI MODEL CONNECTIONS, SOUTH PACIFIC – 5@3pm VIEWS
Maori-French Kiwi model, Yasmine of Clyne Model Management is a local model of Aoteaeroa New Zealand.
Muses in our view: Here’s some:
2. Barack Obama
3. Miley Cyrus
4. Jessica Alba
5. Nature
Early New Zealand French Art:
Artist: Jacques Arago, Joseph Lemercier, Louis Auguste de Sainson
Title: Établissement des missionaries, (Nouvelle Zélande), Production Date: 1833, Medium: lithograph, Inscription: J.Tastu, Editeur J.Arago lith, Lith de Lemericier, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Department:International ArtEdition:1st.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.9.12~
CALLIE TWINS FOR ANNA PAQUIN – BU et BUN EXHIBITION LACMA LOS ANGELES, BAMBOO CALLIGRAPHY JAPAN
Bu et Bun calligraphy of Japan’s greats.
Anna Paquin and Steven Moyers‘ twins news has met wide smiles in fellow Oscar-winner Jane Campion‘s movie fan club circles of New Zealand. Sweet sweet news. :)
Photo: Michael Buckner–Read up: LA Times.
[Also see The Hollywood Baby Boom photos collection recap]
Arts Photo: Bloggers own, snapped at LACMA, Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, Calligraphy CA. Artwork: 13th Century art, from the waka poetry and No Theater era of Japan. Bu et Bun, strength wisdom, tiger dragon poetry.
When visiting LA, always visit LACMA.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 12.9.12~
ROMAN RUSSIAN ARTEFACTS EXHIBITS, SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
She was once a Russian Queen with three-million-plus items of historic artefacts – only a fraction of which were on display at any one time. The items include over 100,000 items of Greek and Roman heritage, one of the world’s finest collections of Western European art spanning the Middle Ages to the 20th century – think Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Titian, Renoir, Cezanne, Monet, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Rodin…
There is art from India, Byzantium, the Middle and Far East, Islamic art, (more…)
1963 LANDSCAPE THEME AND VARIATIONS: SERIES B
Te Papa‘s latest landscape portrait acqusition, depicting the river of Kiwi art in being ”inextricably linked to landscape and place.”
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 22.8.12~
LOS ANGELES TRIP GETAWAYS: PAUL J. GETTY MUSEUM & BRENTWOOD VILLAGE COMMUNITY LIFE
Q. If planning on visiting Los Angeles, where should I be based to see celebrity stuff? What chance do I have of seeing Angeleno Jolie?
A. You’re more likely to see her family in The Vallley than AJ herself. For somewhere to stay, try the Angeleno. It is very cheap. Good quality, cheap. Kiwi friends have stayed here on trips to LA. It’s also close to The Getty families’ largest private collection of art in the world. One of my favorite art collections on display with incredible wine and music festivals occurring in weekends on the sprawling Getty Estate lawns set against a backdrop of stunning cityscape views. Too much fun. Click on pics to go there.
New Zealand’s high commissioner in Los Angeles was based in Brentwood. Their work has included extensive relationship building with New Zealand and Oregon from Los Angeles. Perhaps because of this fact, if you’re a Kiwi, Brentwood always feels very Kiwi hood.
Brentwood village is closeby. Many celebrities with young families live in this village. Very safe. If you’re a Kiwi it’s like Titirangi.
Brentwood is close to the 405. If you go to your left, you’re in the Valley. If you go right you’ll hit Hollywood. The Getty is about 1 mile left.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aoteroa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.7.12~
SHAKING THINGS UP: THE QUEEN AND MARTIN McGUINNESS, NORTHERN IRELAND
It was her 19th visit to Northern Ireland. While there checking out the local Irish art, Regina shook hands with former IRA commander Martin McGuinness yesterday in a highly symbolic moment in the Northern Ireland peace process. The Herald Sun Australia, reported the moment as being: The Queen Shakes Things Up.
World Time Photo: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, second right, shakes hands with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, left, watched by First Minister Peter Robinson, second left, and Prince Philip, right, at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 27, 2012. The handshake was seen as a landmark moment in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Photog: Paul Faith, Getty Images/ AFP.
[Exhibiting artist: The Queen is shown works of art during her visit to Belfast's Lyric Theatre--Newsky].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.6.12~
SITTING BULL ATOP EBONY & IVORY KEYS ON MADRAS & TUAM STREETS
Installation: Massive bulls are attracting attention in the central Christchurch city on Madras and Tuam streets for Michael Parekowhai‘s On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer. The exhibition will run at the Ng Gallery until July 29. Photograph: John Kirk-Anderson.
Poetry: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
More at the Piano.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.6.12~
ARMY ART – MATT GAULDIE, MILITARY ARTIST – SCOTT BASE, ANTARCTICA
Whose cool?
Capt. Matt Gauldie, military artist.
Matt’s unusual upbringing as a Kiwi growing up with a global view, led him to create art as the pieces that remained the same in his life’s journey. His childhood and careeer ranges from Windy Wellington, to Hawaiian tropical heat to Extreme cold arctic temperatures.
The NZ Army’s website says: “[The Lower Hutt artist's] childhood was spent growing up in a creative environment as both parents working as artists. His mother Gail, a full time artist working in Wellington and his father Bob, a Scientist.
Upon completing his schooling in Hawaii he returned to New Zealand in 1995 where after time at Elam School of Art and Design, in Auckland, he began working as a full time artist.”
Working on a commissioned piece in Ngati Tumatauenga (the New Zealand army), Gauldie’s art defines the tradition of the environment, art and our military history of soldiers and military families service, towards adventurous conservation and preservation in the world.
While on a NZ-US mission taking supplies to the Scott Base in the Antarctia, Matt was on board to update the moment for NZ at the base.
The finished result? Gauldie’s latest artwork is calming to the NZ psyche providing a new portrait of who we are as New Zealand citizens. Take a look. Heather du Plessis-Allan and Mark Sainsbury bring the story of a Kiwi artist.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.6.12~
EDITH HEAD’S HOLLYWOOD STAR, WALK OF FAME
New Zealand is home to Oscar winning costume designers on movie sets. Zany creative is how I’d describe filmmakers and the talented crew in Aotearoa, NZ of the arts fashion community of style.
[Photo - Edith Head's Hollywood Star, Walk of Fame. Back in the day, Edith was a real star. Photo II: Oscar winner Ngila Dickson].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 12th June 2012~
WU GUANZHONG ART: A FISHING HARBOUR (III)
Art: A Fishing Harbour (III), 1997, Ink and color on rice paper, H. 55.1 x H. 70.9 in (140 x 180 cm), Shanghai Art Museum.
Artist:Wu Guanzhong.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 11.6.12~
PIANO ART: HE KORERO PURAKAU MO TE AWANUI O TE MOTU: STORY OF A NEW ZEALAND RIVER – MICHAEL PAREKOWHAI AT TE PAPA
Michael Parekowhai’s artworks are gracing New York City’s Asia Society Museum gallery. His Kapa Haka series of 10 fibreglass security officers form a guard of honour into the show.
In 2011, the artist exhibited at the important Venice Biennale. On show was two black bronze pianos topped with giant bulls, a bronze security guard, a brass olive tree and pair of Crocs. A bright red Steinway piano with traditional carving and paua shell trim, completed the exhibit.
The red piano titled He Korero Purakau mo te Awanui o Te Motu: Story of a New Zealand river, is now housed at Te Papa Museum, Wellington.
A self-confessed naughty boy, Parekowhai who now is Associate Professor at Auckland University’s school of fine arts, says as a kid he was noticed by his art teacher at Northcote College and encouraged to put his spirit and humour into art instead of mischief. He could have fallen through the cracks but instead he has become one of the most unique artistic voices in this country.
Michael’s unprentious nature is what the arts community respect about this man and his bullish and bold work.
New York seems to like his giant blow up bunnies that take a shot at “imported” pests, referencing New Zealand’s agricultural identity as a country and farmer’s pastureland productivity yields in relation to wild rabbits having too much fun.
Parekowhai’s work has explored Homer in his art themes.
For more about New Zealand artists, check out Te Papa Museum,
[Reporting: Josie McNaught. Photo Christchurch Art Gallery's website].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 11.6.12~
SHARK TEETH EARRINGS – RANGI TOPEORA’S DAINTY FASHION
In 1840, Maori Chieftainess Rangi Kuini Wikitoria Topeora was one of several Maori women who signed a Treaty with Queen Victoria forming the founding document of our fathers and mothers in New Zealand.
The Auckland City Art Gallery has this portrait by artist Gottfried Lindauer currently on show.
She wore shark’s teeth in her ears as her earrings from the Ocean. They were the fashion of the day. Cute. :)
People of Ngati Toa and Ngati Raukawa Maori tribes in New Zealand descend from Rangi to this day. Always an achiever, as a young woman she was a famous composer of waiata, and many of her songs are still sung today. Waiata were like Television, radio and the internet in those days, they conveyed important messages of Kiwis to others.
Over a thousand years on since they were composed in New Zealand, today, waiata - still do. :)
Happy Matariki! :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 7.6.12~
SHANE COTTON ARTWORK & FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS WORLD NEWS NEW ZEALAND & NZ LOCAL RUGBY & SPORTS NEWS – 5th & 6th OCTOBER 2012
Photo caption: Boom loose forward Ardie Savea was all over the park for Wellington and made some fine runs in his 40 minutes on the field. Photo - Getty Images. Rugby’s final score: Wellington 49, Otago 22. Although team sports achieving its purpose, is just that, a team effort, here’s a list of the point scorers: Otago 22 (Tom Franklin, TJ Ioane, Shota Horie tries; Hayden Parker 2 cons, pen) Wellington 49 (Matt Proctor 3, Ardie Savea, Jeremy Thrush, Frae Wilson, Jason Woodward tries; Woodward 7 cons). HT: 10-35. News: Otago Daily Times.
Friday Nights Lights News & Sports News with the One News Team can be viewed by clicking on this stunning artwork by Shane Cotton. The piece is titled Deuces and is painted in acrylic on map.
Saturday (tonight’s) news & Sports News can also be viewd by linking to artwork Diamonds and Pearls 2011, acrylic on map, alsp a Shane Cotton artwork.
Friday Night Lights: Last nights news from New Zealand and tonights can be viewed at the three pic links above. A busy few days.
Photo caption: Piers Francis of Waikato makes a break during the round 13 ITM Cup rugby match between Counties Manukau and Waikato at ECOLight Stadium. Photo - Getty Images. Final Score: Counties Manukau 28. Waikato 32. –News: Herald on Sunday. Point scorers: Counties Manukau 28 (S. Stowers, T. Nanai-Williams, B. Aki 2 tries; Nanai-Williams con, pen; R. Laulala pen), Waikato 32 (J. Webber, S. Tokula 2. A. Wise tries; T. Renata 3 cons, 2 pens). Halftime: 8-10.
Photo: James Oliver runs with ball in hand. Photo: Getty. Hawkes Bay were too strong for Manawatu. Final score: Manawatu 20 (Shaun Curry, David Te Moana tries; Nathan George 2 pens, 2 cons) Hawkes Bay 7 (Andrew Horrell try; Horrell con). HT: 3-7.
Friday Night Lights Maori News & Maori Sports News of New Zealand can be viewed courtesy of the Te Karere Team of journalists by linking on artwork picture. Shane Cotton’s work is titled The Difficult Crossing, acrylic.
The New Zealand national newspaper has more rugby football coverage @ www.nzherald.co.nz. Happy reading. TVNZ.co.nz also has video news bulletins, updated 24-7 as does www.TV3.c0.nz. (To the teams of cool journalists in NZ and their interview subjects – Thank you for the news).
Cotton’s artwork is on display at The Hamish MacKay Art Gallery. Check out their website for a virtual tour of Kiwi art. (Very cool).
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.10.12~
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