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Gallery launches Art Award to honour benefactor - 29 Jul 2010
Tauranga Art Gallery has launched the biennial Miles Art Award in honour of one its first benefactors, Venetta Miles. Venetta Miles generously donated over $1 million to the Tauranga Art Gallery Trust for the establishment of a public...
Double Portrait of Artist's Life - 23 Jul 2010
When some of Frances Hodgkins’ paintings end up in the hands of a Parisian gallery owner who has never heard of the artist, an Auckland art gallery curator is determined to get them back to New Zealand. So begins Jan Bolwell’s lively,...
Gallery welcomes Frances Hodgkins exhibition - 29 Jun 2010
Frances Hodgkins, one of the most significant modernist painters of the 20th century, comes to Tauranga Art Gallery next month. Frances Hodgkins:femme du monde opens at the Gallery on Saturday 3 July.
Going against the flow of the art tide - 29 Jun 2010
Two exhibitions open at Tauranga Art Gallery on 3 July that showcase New Zealand artists who have stepped outside the constraints of the New Zealand art canon of the times, and pursued their own style. Bohemians of the Brush: Pumpkin...
Young art lovers establish a presence in the Gallery - 24 Jun 2010
Eighty-five senior students from local secondary schools congregated at Tauranga Art Gallery on Monday evening to launch the Young Friends of the Gallery.
A glittering prize for the Gallery - 02 Jun 2010
The sheer scale of Reuben Paterson’s glittering, colourful Whakapapa: get down upon your knees, installed in Tauranga Art Gallery’s Atrium from Saturday 12 June, is impressive.
A special thanks to Gallery supporters - 28 May 2010
Long time supporters and funders of Tauranga Art Gallery gathered at the gallery last night in a function designed to recognise their generosity and support. Gallery trustees, councillors, Mayors Stuart Crosby and Ross Paterson were among...
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