Home News Media Releases News Menu ↑ BlogMedia ReleasesPodcastOur Favourites Media Releases 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 19 Mar 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 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 15 Dec 2020 New opening times from 2021 From January 4th 2021 The Dowse Art Museum will be closed on Mondays. Read More 20 Nov 2020 The Dowse receives the newly established Blumhardt Fund The Dowse Art Museum is delighted to announce it is one of the first recipients of the newly established Blumhardt Fund. The Blumhardt Fund provides a dollar for ... Read More 19 Nov 2020 Excellence in student design celebrated at the 2020 ECC NZ Student Craft/Design awards A multi-sensory audio-tactile installation made up of three-and-a-half-thousand individually handmade ceramic pieces by Imogen Zino, has been crowned the Supreme Winner at the ECC NZ Student Craft/Design awards. ... Read More 14 Nov 2020 Terminus - A choose-your-own adventure into the technological Geometric patterns, humanoid bodies, alien architectural environments and relics of an ancient world appear throughout Terminus - an immersive, virtual reality installation by Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, ... Read More 30 Oct 2020 The Dowse reopens Nuku Tewhatewha Following an extensive refurbishment, The Dowse Art Museum reopens Nuku Tewhatewha – the only known intact pātaka of seven or eight built as symbols of support for the ... Read More Load More