[image[Leonardo da Vinci is in the news again, and there are some good things among the old and modern masters at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
There was a report that the spaces where two trees were felled in the Octagon would not be replanted but used to experiment with seats (ODT, 29.1.15).
The weather gods didn't favour us on New Year's Eve. No matter. I had an excellent view of the Octagon fireworks from my window and they were noisy, Baroque and expressive.
On Saturday December 13, I attended a mass at St Mary Star of the Sea at Port Chalmers.
Dunedin's arts and cultural resources have been enjoying some unusual recognition recently.
Joel Schiff recently published a new biography of the Dunedin-born artist Grace Joel (1865-1924).
There's a problem at the Dunedin Public Hospital, but it is not a medical one. The hospital owns or has the benefit of a large collection of works of art.
Wow! Arts Festival Dunedin is over but some of it was extremely good.
By the time you read this, Arts Festival Dunedin will be into the fourth day of its day season.
On Friday, August 29, the city council launched its draft Dunedin Arts and Culture Strategy.
''Shunga Japanese Prints'' at the Brett McDowell Gallery in Dowling St is a remarkable exhibition in a number of ways.
There seems to be an asymmetry between the development of modern art and modern architecture in New Zealand in the early part of the 20th century.
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery's permanent collection exhibition Belonging has subsidiary themes and different exhibitions inside it, and serves to showcase a number of the gallery's great as well as some of its lesser holdings.
The former New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency building is to have a new bright future it seems.
Does the Dunedin Public Art Gallery overlook local talent?
The exhibition ''Peeps of Life'' at the Hocken Collections looks at a previously unexamined part of the work of John Halliday Scott (1851-1914): his photographs.
It's good to see more of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's permanent collection on show again. It's presented on the ground floor in an exhibition Belonging.
A new way of putting art in public places has been proposed.
The harbourside high-rise project seems pretty well dead in the water, if you'll pardon the pun. If any good has come out of it, perhaps it has raised consciousness of urban design issues.
Old ideas have a habit of hanging about, some of them good and some of them bad. Recently, one bad one concerning our museums has been heading into retreat while a good one is showing a little promise.
