Published 2012 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington44 pages210mm x 148mm, paperback, with black/white artist page works and accompanying CDISBN 978-1-877309-22-9

Object Lessons

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Gordon H. Brown Lecture 21: Rachel Buchanan, 'Rei - A Whānau History of Aotearoa Art'

Tote by Matthew Galloway

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 20: Lana Lopesi, 'Moana Cosmopolitan Imaginaries'

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 14: Rebecca Rice, 'Unsettling: Art and the New Zealand Wars'

Energy Work: Kathy Barry / Sarah Smuts-Kennedy

The Legacies Reader

Ana Iti postcard

Nick Austin postcards

Bingo: Writing around the 2022 Aotearoa Art Fair

Barbara Tuck: Delirium Crossing

Chris Corson-Scott: Evanescent Monuments

Hinemihi: Te Hokinga – The Return

Kate Newby: YES TOMORROW

Kate Newby: YES TOMORROW tea towel

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 18: Anthony Byrt, 'Documenting the Fall: Decadence, Descent and Monsters in the Art of Simon Denny'

Next Spring: Boaz Levin, 'On Distance', Berlin, September 2020

Dane Mitchell, List of Lists, 2020

Billy Apple, From the Decade Series

Looking For A New Country: Christopher Perkins In New Zealand

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 17: Conal McCarthy, 'William Page Rose & Āpirana Ngata: Experiments in Māori arts and crafts 1920-40'

On the Last Afternoon: Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell

Edith Amituanai: Double Take

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 16: Christina Barton, 'Towards a History of the Contemporary'

Next Spring: Elena Parpa, Athens, June 2018

Still looking: Peter McLeavey and the last photograph

Covenant cut-out series, Shaun Waugh

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 15: Damian Skinner, 'London Calling: Artistic Decolonisation and the New Commonwealth Internationalism'

Walking the Ridge: Writings from the 2017 Adam Art Gallery Summer Intensive

Apparitions: The Photograph and its Image

BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS: Ruth Buchanan, Judith Hopf, Marianne Wex

Patrick Pound: Documentary Intersect

Next Spring: Paris, May 2016

Matthew Barney, Jonathan Bepler: River of Fundament

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 13: Nicholas Thomas, 'A Critique of the Natural Artifact: Anthropology, Art & Museology'

Traces of the Wake: The Etching Revival in Britain and Beyond

Drawing Is/Not Building

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 12: Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, 'Does Māori Art History Matter?'

Simon Denny: The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom

Kim Pieters: what is a life?

Cinema & Painting

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 11: Ross Gibson, 'Aqueous Aesthetics: An Art History of Change'

State of the Art: Reproductive Prints from the Renaissance to Now

John Panting: Sculpture

Jacqueline Fraser: The Making of the Ciao Manhattan Tapes, 2013

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 10: Robert Leonard, 'Nostalgia for Intimacy'

We Will Work With You!

Peripheral Relations: Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art 1960-2011

Dark Sky

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 9: Paul Tapsell, 'The Art of Taonga'

Points of Contact: Jim Allen, Len Lye, Hélio Oiticica

Behind Closed Doors

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 8: Rex Butler 'Colin McCahon in Australia'

Play On

GBA: Print Publishing in the Gazette des Beaux Arts

Gavin Hipkins: Bible Studies (New Testament)

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 6: Sarah Treadwell, 'Rangiatea Revisited'

Vivian Lynn: I, HERE, NOW

The Subject Now

Te Mata: The Ethnological Portrait

Hydraulics of Solids: João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva

Sam Morrison: Whiff Whaff

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 5: Leonard Bell, 'In Transit: Questions of Home & Belonging in New Zealand Art'

Interior Life

Pulp Fictions: The Art of Giovanni Battisa Piranesi

Four Times Painting

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 4: Annie Goldson, 'Memory, Landscape, Dad & Me'

In View: Works from the V.U.W Art Collection

Archiving Fever

The Captain’s Ghost

Islanded: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan

Venice Document. ET AL., The Fundamental Practice

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 3: Roger Blackley 'A Nation’s Portraits'

Artiface: Artists’ Portraits in Prints

Breaking Ice: Re-Visioning Antarctica

Still Present: Exploring Psychiatric Institutions in Photography

Victoria’s Art – A University Collection

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 2: Tony Green 'Toss Woollaston: Origins & Influence'

The Expatriates: Frances Hodgkins and Barrie Batt

Gordon Walters: Prints + Design

Two Laws: One Big Spirit

Concrete Horizons: Contemporary Art from China

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 1: Gordon H. Brown 'Elements of Modernism in Colin McCahon’s Early Work'

Before Addled Art: The Graphic Art of Lionel Lindsay

Tatau – Pe’a: Photographs by Mark Adams and Measina Samoa | Stories of the Malu by Lisa Taouma

Sumwhr: K Rd to Kingdom Come

Stray Leaves: Colonial Trompe L’oeil Drawings

Face to Face: Contemporary Art from Taiwan

Gavin Hipkins: The Habitat

Joseph Kosuth: Guests and Foreigners, Rules and Meanings (Te Kore)

Language Matters

Manufacturing Meaning | Frances Hodgkins: Kimmeridge Foreshore

Manufacturing Meaning | John Weeks: Figure Composition I

Manufacturing Meaning | Gordon Walters: Kahkura

Manufacturing Meaning | Colin McCahon: Gate III

Manufacturing Meaning | Ralph Hotere: Song Cycle Series

Manufacturing Meaning | Michael Smither: Christ Driving the Money Changers From the Temple

Manufacturing Meaning | Jacqueline Fahey: The Birthday Party

Manufacturing Meaning | Richard Killeen: Welcome to the South Pacific

Manufacturing Meaning | John Pule: Mamakava

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