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The prophet Visual cream

The prophet Visual cream

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Based on Kahlil Gibran book, The Prophet is an animated feature film by Roger Allers, with chapters from award-winning animation directors. Excellent drawing complement the high poetry... >>>

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... >>>

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... >>>

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... >>>

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... >>>

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... >>>

Making a change

Making a change

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Artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn create community art by painting entire neighbourhoods, and involving those who live there — from the favelas of Rio to the streets of North... >>>

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. >>>

what on earth did I just witness?

what on earth did I just witness?

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Chinese animation artist Ray Lei, 26-year-old, has already hit International Animation Festival shows few times with his interesting multimedia works. >>>

Skateistan

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;Skateistan, a documentary film by Orlando Einsiedel on a skatepark project for the kids of Kabul, Afghanistan. I was thrilled to learn that Skatistan was created in Kabul. It is a unique... >>>

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... >>>

Women are Heroes

Women are Heroes

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'Women are Heroes' is a photography project by french photographer JR. This work, which got viral, is about pictures made into huge posters and glued to public spaces. >>>

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... >>>

Spike Jonze Lazarus Effect film

Spike Jonze Lazarus Effect film

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'The Lazarus Effect' by director Lance Bangs and executive producer Spike Jonze premieres on HBO, YouTube and Channel 4 UK. The 30 minute film illustrates the transformative effect of... >>>

Plantas Nomadas

Plantas Nomadas

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Gilberto Espanza's nomadic plants are a sort of hybrid plant and microorganism robots who feed on polluted water. The robot plant is self sufficient being powered by a microbial fuel cell... >>>