TWO LOTS OF EXCELLENT MAGAZINE READING TODAY

First the quarterly publication from the Christchurch Art Gallery:

Bulletin 160
Bulletin is a collectible magazine produced quarterly by the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.
Redesigned in 2009, Bulletin is an award winning, image-rich publication that details and reviews the Gallery's exhibitions and events and provides in-depth focus on current issues in art.
The Bulletin can be purchased from the Gallery Shop, or subscribed to through becoming a Friend of the Christchurch Art Gallery.

Bulletin 160
Autumn: March - May 2010
Contents include:

WILLIAM SUTTON Pat Unger on Sutton's Italian sojourn
A GARDEN OF PECULIARITIES Tessa Laird on Joyce Campbell's LA Botanical series
ANDREW DRUMMOND Jennifer Hay on Observation / Action / Reflection
VIEWING DEVICE, COUNTER-ROTATING A new work for the Gallery's foyer
OPINION Matthew O'Reilly on reframing the crucifixion
REVISITING THE ART OF THE NUDE AND CHRISTINE WEBSTER Anne Kirker
64 Pages - Full colour 260mm x 280mm - rrp: $9.99

Second the weekly New Zealand Listener - March 20-26, 2010 

 Highlights for book lovers this week:


 
1.Seeing the lightby Diana Wichtel
For 25 years Francis Pound wrestled with New Zealand’s nationalist preoccupations. The result? A book called  The Invention of New Zealand: Art & National Identity 1930-1970.








2.An excitationby Maggie Barry
How a Kiwi with a stellar career helped an unlikely film win major awards, and ended up getting an Oscar nomination herself.

3.
'One of the vulgarest women'by CK Stead
TS Eliot on Katherine Mansfield and other insights into the poet’s life and thoughts in his collected letters.












And then of course there is the cultural curmudgeon who gets a whole page this week and is in a remarkably patient and thoughtful mode on the subject of the great New Zealand flag debate. It would seem that even contary cultural curmudgeons have their quiet moments......