OPEN CONVERSATIONS
Victoria University of Wellington academics speak with art practitioners working in the field and the collectors behind the exhibition Behind Closed Doors: New Zealand Art from Private Collections in Wellington.

Conversation 1: Public/Private
Thursday 14 July 2011, 6-7pm

Join anthropologist Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich and art writer, critic and collector Sue Gardiner in a discussion on how the public display of private art collections questions our preconceptions of what is private and what can be made public in the production of cultural knowledge.

DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENINGS
Screening 1: Herb and Dorothy, dir. Megumi Sasaki, 2008. 87 mins.

Devotional New York art patrons Herb and Dorothy Vogel are the subject of this delightful portrait, taking us inside the couple’s modest one bedroom apartment and home to one the world’s most envied minimalist and conceptual art collections.

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 12 noon
Kirk Gallery, Adam Art Gallery

ENDS

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