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Natisa Jones at Tony Raka

Natisa Jones at Tony Raka

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Love Is Never Lonely, an interesting show at Tony Raka Art Gallery, in Ubud, Bali has started today. Showing the latest Natisa Jones works, journey through her work the serenity in... >>>

Love and Erotic Art

Love and Erotic Art

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Jean Couteau presented at Usada in Ubud, Bali - Balinese love and sexuality - from a philosophical and social point of view, enlightened by reference to stories and erotic illustrations.... >>>

Balinese Masters at ABBC

Balinese Masters at ABBC

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Calling Balinese painting traditional misrepresents the dynamics and highly innovative nature of painting in Bali. Tradition implies lack of change, adherence to set types. While both the... >>>

Herb Foley at Warwick Henderson

Herb Foley at Warwick Henderson

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Warwick Henderson Gallery specialises in contemporary and 20th century New Zealand Art. They represent many prominent New Zealand artists and have staged over 300 exhibitions. The... >>>

Jack Trolove at Whitespace

Jack Trolove at Whitespace

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Jack Trolove s practice, spans 20 years of working with the body, as political site and poetic substance. For many years he created articulate work using moving image, performance and... >>>

Christopher Ulutupu at Enjoy

Christopher Ulutupu at Enjoy

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Established in June 2000 as an artist-run initiative, Enjoy Public Art Gallery is a leading independent contemporary art space located in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New... >>>

Traditional Maori Art

Traditional Maori Art

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Te Papas vision for the future is to change hearts, minds, and lives being a forum for the nation to present, explore, and preserve the heritage of its cultures and knowledge of the... >>>

Ellwood at Melanie Roger

Ellwood at Melanie Roger

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Melanie Roger works with and represents some of New Zealand's most exciting artists, newcomers and established, across all mediums. They run a changing exhibition schedule on a monthly... >>>

Billy Apple at Mokopopaki

Billy Apple at Mokopopaki

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Mokopopaki, the smallest gallery in the city, is showing work by the artist with the largest reputation. Billy Apple has registered his name as a trademark brand name since his early... >>>

Gretchen Albrecht at Two Rooms

Gretchen Albrecht at Two Rooms

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Two Rooms, is a contemporary art gallery located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland. When we visited, Gretchen Albrecht latest work -Between gesture and geometry- was on. >>>

Stephen Bambury at Trish Clark

Stephen Bambury at Trish Clark

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Now splitting his time between New Zealand and Europe, Stephen Bambury presents a solo exhibition of new works that incorporate his thinking and material approaches across his nearly five... >>>

Matthew Brownie at Orexart

Matthew Brownie at Orexart

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Orexart has been exhibiting emerging, mid-career and established artists from New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific since 1990. The gallery's mission is to build the careers of its... >>>

Ani O'Neill at Starkwhite

Ani O'Neill at Starkwhite

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Located on Auckland’s Karangahape Road, Starkwhite offers a programme of solo and group shows by represented and guest artists, along with independently curated exhibitions. The gallery is... >>>

Don Chooi at Studio One

Don Chooi at Studio One

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Studio One Toi Tū offers more ways for Aucklanders to meet and share ideas, skills and practices, with each other and visitors. Now showing Ego Morpheus, a collective featuring several... >>>

Marti Friedlander at FHE Galleries

Marti Friedlander at FHE Galleries

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In the panorama of the Auckland art scene FHE galleries definitely sticks out. Perfect attention for detail and an excellent presentational refinement are their trademarks. Currently... >>>

Bob Kerr at Whitespace

Bob Kerr at Whitespace

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Whitespace located in Auckland, Ponsonby is currently showing Bob Kerr. Directors Deborah White and Kenneth Johnson represent many of New Zealand’s senior artists alongside outstanding... >>>

Christina Pataialii at Tim Melville

Christina Pataialii at Tim Melville

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Auckland gallery Tim Melville is currently presenting On the Lam, Christina Pataialii’s first exhibition with them. In this suite of a dozen paintings in acrylic and house-paint on canvas... >>>

Auckland Art Gallery

Auckland Art Gallery

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Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tāmaki, is New Zealand’s largest and most inspiring visual arts experience. Four floors of exhibitions, right in the heart of Auckland city. The perfect place... >>>

Art is a selfie background

Art is a selfie background

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Art, formerly considered an high end cultural extravaganza, is now entering a new perception phase. Forget the eye opening art-critic comment, the interview with author, the art piece... >>>

A nomadic Life

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As an old tradition, Khampas from all over the Tibetan Plateau come to celebrate The Litang Horse Festival every August in Litang County, Sichuan province, China. >>>

Products are people

Products are people

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Products are people and they're looking at me. – Anthropomorphism, the innate human tendency to attribute human or human-like characteristics, motives and behaviours to non-human forms,... >>>

Paradise Garbage

Paradise Garbage

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In Bali, as tourism grown more and more every year, the trash at the Suwung Waste Disposal Area is a mountain of rubbish that dominates the landscape. 30 Hectares site, with some hills... >>>

Burning trash

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I had always thought that's just the poor people who clean their yard by burning the rubbish, but I had to change my mind. I spoke recently with a rich kid from an high status family in... >>>

Understanding emotions

Understanding emotions

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So what are emotions, really? Well, strap on your seat belt, because emotions are guesses. They are guesses that your brain constructs in the moment where billions of brain cells are... >>>

Better conversation

Better conversation

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Buddha said, and I'm paraphrasing, 'If your mouth is open, you're not learning'. And Calvin Coolidge said 'No man ever listened his way out of a job'. I came to realise that conversational... >>>

Wisdom of mud buildings

Wisdom of mud buildings

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There are a lot of resources given by nature for free, all we need is our sensitivity to see them and our creativity to use them. Heringer uses low-tech materials like mud and bamboo to... >>>

Hallucinating all the time

Hallucinating all the time

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'We're all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.' According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, when we... >>>

Don’t believe in beliefs

Don’t believe in beliefs

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When mystery presents itself people want answers. And when there are none, they cling to beliefs. As the function of a belief is to provide simple answers to the deepest of questions,... >>>

Perception deceives us

Perception deceives us

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Our perception deceives us. We awake in the morning feeling still, as we look out the window to see a tiny looking sun rising in the sky. We walk outside and the ground looks flat. And as... >>>

Treasures of Meaning

Treasures of Meaning

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The concept of meaning starts with emptiness. It is like an empty bowl. You may fill an empty bowl with whatever you may wish – whether it be rice, fruit or soup – and yet it is impartial... >>>

The cow is not your mom

The cow is not your mom

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Rarely you find witty sharp humour, meaningful content and globally important issues all included into an artist work. Melinda has definitely something to say. Her awesome illustrations... >>>

An Atlas of Mirrors

An Atlas of Mirrors

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Part of Singapore Biennale 2016, An Atlas of Mirrors presents contemporary artworks by more than 60 artists and art collectives from Southeast Asia, and East and South Asia. >>>

Economics for everyone

Economics for everyone

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Illustrated here by Andrew Park, Ha-Joon Chang explains why every single person can and should get their head around basic economics. He pulls back the curtain on the often mystifying... >>>

There is a beginning

There is a beginning

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Zhuang Zhou, often written Chuang Tzu, known for Zhuangzi was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BC. He is credited with writing the Zhuangzi book, which... >>>

How to grow fresh air!

How to grow fresh air!

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Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air. >>>

Motivations not cash!

Motivations not cash!

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What motivate us? This inspiring illustrated talk inquiries how motivations drive our everyday actions and work. Adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, this video illustrates some hidden... >>>

Seeds, grow forests & food

Seeds, grow forests & food

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How big is yourself? In these 3 projects the concept of togetherness and self is fully blended. The following 3 examples, on food and the ecosystem topic, show a new social math! >>>

Thinking out of the box

Thinking out of the box

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Pranav Mistry is a real source of inspirations for his 'Thinking out of the box'. Inventor of SixthSense, Pranav Mistry, here at TedIndia demos several tools that help the physical world... >>>

Building smart

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Through his firm, Kéré Architecture, Kéré focuses on using local building materials and techniques in a modern way, to redefine and redesign the enviroment. In Burkina Faso, that means... >>>

Who am I? Think again

Who am I? Think again

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How do we decide who we are? Hetain Patel's surprising performance plays with identity, language and accent and challenges you to think deeper than surface appearances. >>>

Numbeo: Numbers for all

Numbeo: Numbers for all

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Numbeo is the world's largest database providing current and timely information on world living conditions. >>>

Thailand election posters

Thailand election posters

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Fumes is offering a glimpse of the styles and subjects used in campaigns during this general election. Fumes attempts to translate the various campaign slogans that reveal candidates... >>>

The art of Aakash Nihalani

The art of Aakash Nihalani

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My street work consists mostly of isometric rectangles and squares. I selectively place these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected counters and elegant geometry of the city... >>>

The Red Bag Race

The Red Bag Race

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The red bag race is a competition to collect trash. It takes place during surf contests organised by Volcom Indonesia. It aims at educating kids on acting about environmental pollution. >>>

Conflict Minerals

Conflict Minerals

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In the past ten years, the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo has taken more than 6 million lives. It is a conflict that still has not ended, taking 45,000 lives a month, 1,500 lives... >>>

Google Encrypted Search

Google Encrypted Search

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Your internet service provider can actually look at what you are searching. Do you want to stop this? Now you can... >>>