WELLINGTON (AP).- Author, academic and founder of the popular Arts & Letters Daily website Denis Dutton has died in New Zealand, his family said Wednesday. He was 66. Dutton, professor of philosophy at New Zealand’s Canterbury University, had been dia…
A Cabinet of Curiosities by Fiona Pardington, Carlo Van de Roer, and David Boyce at Suite Fine Art Gallery
WELLINGTON.- Wunderkammer brings together works that represent a contemporary take on the Renaissance notion of a cabinet of curiosities; that displayed altogether objects from the worlds of art and antiquities, natural history, geology, archaeology as…
Te Papa Museum Explains Why It Suggested Pregnant and Menstruating Women Not Visit Exhibition
WELLINGTON.- Ms Michelle Hippolite, Te Papa’s Kaihautū, today clarified the Museum’s guidelines for entry to its taonga Māori (Māori treasures) collection store – an area not accessible by the general public – in response to me…
Te Papa Museum Explains Why It Suggested Pregnant and Menstruating Women Not Visit Exhibition
WELLINGTON.- Ms Michelle Hippolite, Te Papa’s Kaihautū, today clarified the Museum’s guidelines for entry to its taonga Māori (Māori treasures) collection store – an area not accessible by the general public – in response to me…
Century-Old Scotch Pulled from Antarctic Ice at the Canterbury Museum
WELLINGTON (AP).- A crate of Scotch whisky that was trapped in Antarctic ice for a century was finally opened Friday — but the heritage dram won’t be tasted by whisky lovers because it’s being preserved for its historic significance. The crate, re…
New Zealand’s Canterbury Museum Thaws 100-Year-Old Scotch
WELLINGTON (AP).- A crate of Scotch whisky that has been frozen in Antarctic ice for more than a century is being slowly thawed by New Zealand museum officials — for analysis, not to be tasted. The crate of whisky was recovered earlier this year &…