A render of the next stage of the redevelopment and redesign of Tauranga Art Gallery Photo: supplied
Tauranga Art Gallery has unveiled plans for its redevelopment as part of Tauranga's civic precinct, Te Manawataki o Te Papa.
It includes expanded exhibition spaces, a Creativity Centre, cafe, and upgraded facilities.
To fund these changes including seismic strengthening - the gallery's Trust has sold the land to Tauranga City Council, who will in turn lease it back to them for $1 annually.
The gallery is currently closed and currently operating from a pop-up venue on Devonport Road.
Staying with Tauranga: the Acorn Foundation in partnership with Tauranga Art Gallery has announced a brand new and rather substantial Jann Medlicott Award for Contemporary Art.
The $30,000 art prize has been established through the bequest of the late Jann Medlicott. It will be awarded biennially to an artist who has made a significant contribution to contemporary art practice.
A panel of experts will base their decision on the contribution of the artist over two years.
Medlicott also supports the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards with the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction..
She worked at Tauranga Hospital as Clinical Director of Radiology and then co-founded two private radiology practices in Tauranga.
Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival has announced the addition of six more regions for the festival during August and September.
Hamilton, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Masterton, and Tauranga have been added.
This follows the bombshell in February, that the festival would only appear in four major centres and a reduced number of venues.
The number of centres receiving this year's festival now stands at 10, compared to 15 in 2023.
Richard Serra's Te Tuhirangi Contour 1999/2001 at Gibbs Farm, made of 56 Corten steel plates Photo: Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
Richard Serra, an American sculptor whose grand steel works came to define the Minimalist art movement, has died at the age of 85.
Serra died on Tuesday at his home in New York.
One of Serra's largest works is in New Zealand: the 257 metre long snaking Te Tuhirangi Contour at Gibbs Farm in the Kaipara.
A painting depicting the likeness of former Newshub presenter Oriini Kaipara has been removed from an online marketplace after complaints it was done without her knowledge or consent.
The artist, who identified himself as Warren Thomas, listed the painting featuring Kaipara's moko kauae on the platform Artwork City, for $1200.
Kaipara says she has no idea about the painting and found out through messages on Instagram.
The inaugural Malta art Biennale next week will present Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces.
It's a programme of 20 Māori moving image works.
Auckland public gallery Te Tuhi is also presenting a selection of these works from the third of April to 24th of May.
Craig Hickman-Goodall will step up in July from Chief Operating Officer at Tāmaki Makaurau's Museum of Transport and Technology MOTAT to Director, taking over from Michael Frawley.
Frawley has been in the role for 11 years.
Hickman-Goodall has previously been Deputy Director of Auckland Art Gallery, Chief Executive of St James Theatre and Opera House in Wellington, and led the redevelopment of Hawkes Bay Opera House and Hastings City Art Gallery.
