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Monday morning edition – updates expected: Congratulations to all winners of the club finals on Saturday, now the club season turns to the ride its conclusion of the Colts and Reserve Grade competitions. The Colts finals this coming Saturday at both at the Kilbirnie precinct, with Marist St Pat’s emerging as top qualifier to earn...

For decades, Archie Rand’s “Letter Paintings” series has been something of a cult favorite among painters and critics. Now, 44 of them are heading to an unlikely home: the corporate collection of Italy’s Modena FC. New York–based gallery Jarvis Art announced this week that the Italian football club has acquired the group of paintings, which Rand made between 1968 and 1971 while still a teenager. The series was shown in 1983 at the Museum of the Carnegie Institute and reunited in a 1991 exhibition at Exit Art in New York, where it earned a jazzy review from  New York Times  critic Roberta Smith. The works have rarely been seen together since. The paintings marked an early turning point for Rand. As a teenager, he apprenticed under painter Larry Poons and became an acolyte of the influential critic Clement Greenberg, who saw the young artist as part of the next generation of abstract painters. But instead of following that path to its logical co...

John Pulu | Presenter/ Reporter/Director A new documentary premiering at the New Zealand International Film Festival next month tells the story of pioneering Pacific musician Fonotī Pati Umaga, whose life changed dramatically in 2005 when a fall left him tetraplegic. After years of hardship, he found renewed purpose and healing in places he never expected.

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Joyce Kozloff, the renowned Pattern and Decoration artist and founder of the feminist magazine Heresies (1977–93), has revealed herself to be a founding member of the feminist action group Guerrilla Girls. She made the disclosure in an interview published July 22 in Art Journal Open . The Guerrilla Girls collective was formed in 1984 in response to the exhibition “International Survey of Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which included the work of 169 artists, fewer than 10 percent of whom were women. Using the tagline “the conscious of the art world,” the Guerrilla Girls’s anonymous members embarked on a poster campaign targeting institutions and figures in the art world whom they felt were responsible for the exclusion of women and non-white artists from mainstream exhibitions and publications. “We decided to call ourselves the Guerrilla Girls, wear fishnet hose and short skirts, call out the worst misogynists in the art ...

An episode of the BBC One documentary series Fake or Fortune? that aired on July 23 confirmed that a previously unattributed artwork was in fact painted by the 18th century Scottish artist Katherine Read. The painting belongs to Mary-Louise Wedderburn, a retired accountant who inherited it from her uncle 20 years ago. Wedderburn presented the gold-framed painting—a portrait of a young Indian woman with a languid expression, wearing several strands of pearl necklaces and a large emerald pendant—wrapped in a sleeping bag. According to the BBC, their research team wasn’t going in complete cold: Wedderburn had an inkling that it could be by Read, who was a distant relative. The painting is estimated to be worth approximately $130,000. Read was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1723. She traveled with a niece to India in the mid-1770s, and died en route back to England the following year. During the 18th century, she was well-known for oil and pastel portraits, o...