Home News Blog News Menu ↑ BlogMedia ReleasesPodcastOur Favourites Blog 14 May 2021 Fun and friction played in Mother-Daughter portraiture From surfing to tennis to golf, sports become a playful metaphor for exploring the challenging emotional terrain of the mother-daughter relationship in There’s No I In Team, a ... Read More 9 May 2021 Top Art comes to The Dowse Some of New Zealand’s best secondary school artwork will be on display at The Dowse from 10 - 14 May 2021, as part of the Top Art exhibition. Read More 11 Apr 2021 Not today... Can you decolonise an art gallery? Join Nigel Borell, former curator Māori at Auckland Art Gallery, Puawai Cairns, Director Audience and Insight at Te Papa and Karl Chitham (Ngā Puhi, Te Uriroroi), The Dowse ... Read More 31 Mar 2021 Gorge on a visual feast of the sickeningly sweet Lollies exploding out of faces, candy-coloured corporate dystopia and disaster-inflected dessert commercials feature in the pick ‘n mix of artworks by contemporary international and Aotearoa-based artists in Candy ... Read More 25 Mar 2021 Showcasing Aotearoa's urban art scene - from the streets to the gallery The Most Dedicated: An Aotearoa Graffiti Story and the TMD Street Art Festival The first major public museum display of street art collective, TMD Crew, The Dowse Art ... Read More 21 Mar 2021 Terminus: Artist Talk Visual artist Jess Johnson & video-maker and animator Simon Ward in conversation with curator and Dowse director Karl Chitham about their unique collaborative relationship and the process of ... Read More 8 Mar 2021 Decolonising your Puku: indigenous food sovereignty How do our food systems impact our lands, waters and whānau wellbeing? Jared Hiakita, Kelly Marie Francis and Dr Jessica Hutchings with facilitator Kaye Maree Dunn, discusses approaches ... Read More 7 Mar 2021 COVID-19 update: The Dowse is open The Dowse Art Museum is open today. Read More 28 Feb 2021 COVID-19 update: The Dowse is open The Dowse is open (Tuesday to Sunday) during Alert Level 2. Read More 19 Feb 2021 The Dowse launches first survey exhibition of Jane Dodd jewellery The Dowse Art Museum presents the first major survey of contemporary jeweller Jane Dodd in a new exhibition titled Wild Domain: The Natural History of Jane Dodd Jewellery. Read More 1 Feb 2021 Digging for gold - The Dowse celebrates its 50th year with new exhibition Fool’s Gold The Dowse Art Museum will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year starting off with a new exhibition, Fool’s Gold, opening on 2 February, featuring the golden, yellow and ... Read More 19 Jan 2021 Angela Singer: Second Sight artist talk Dr Chelsea Nicholls chats to artist Angela Singer about her most recent exhibition, Second Sight. Singer discusses her practice and shares stories behind the ghost birds, floating snouts, ... Read More Load More
