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New Zealand magazines
(covering contemporary topics)
Art New Zealand
“the major visual arts journal in New Zealand”
Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of contemporary and retrospective New Zealand visual arts: artists, book reviews, current art events, and exhibitions.
Printed cumulative indexes are available by asking at the First Floor desk, Central City Library.
Art news New Zealand
“Packed with news, reviews, profiles and features…”
Covers the contemporary New Zealand art scene with news, reviews, artists' profiles and interviews. Published quarterly, this magazine also includes regular promotional features and reviews of current exhibitions.
Year book of the arts in New Zealand
Features contemporary and retrospective articles on the arts. A basic index is also printed in each yearbook.
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New Zealand Magazines
(covering early and historical topics)
Landfall
Essentially a literary journal but earlier issues include coverage of the fine arts.
A cumulative printed index for v.1-45 (1947-1991) is also held in the Auckland Research Centre, 2nd Floor, Central City Library
Art in New Zealand
“The scholarly foundations of our art history”
Note: Title changes in 1946 to Arts in New Zealand
This is an important early source for New Zealand artists active in the 1920s-'40s. It also includes some retrospective articles on earlier artists.
Journal ceased publication in 1946 and continued as the year book (See above).
Indexed in: A journal of their own: Index to Art in New Zealand
The triad
"A monthly journal devoted to literature, art, music and drama"
Probably New Zealand’s earliest arts journal.
The library has incomplete holdings from 1896 - 1927 and various supplements.
All issues are held in Special Collections, 2nd Floor, Central City Library.
A number of New Zealand art magazines are indexed in Index New Zealand and other databases in our Digital Library.
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International magazines
The following magazines publish a huge variety of articles on the international art scene. They review all topical issues within contemporary art including writing on galleries, museums, critics’ choices, exhibitions, art fairs and overviews of individual artists.
Artforum International
See also the Artforum website for more information.
Flash Art
Art in America
(See websites for current news, articles from the latest issues and archived material.)
The following magazines cover specific sculptural concerns, traditional and contemporary, with an international outlook.
Sculpture
World sculpture news
Woodcarving
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Online
magazines
The Art Newspaper
Intends to “recognise that the art world is part of ordinary life.....We report on old art, new art, decorative art, the commercial and the non-commercial world- but we are very careful not to mix the last two up...... We want to know and show where the power lies in the art world.”
Natural Selection
An Australasian art reviews magazine based in Auckland and edited by Gwenyth Porter and Dan Arps. They accept “nepotistic, poetic, fictional, theoretical, obfuscatory, uncertain, epic, lyric, curt, microscopic, myopic” contributions to the magazine culminating in a freely available, ecclectic reader detailing the activities of the Australasian art scene.
The issues are full of information, asides, and snippets making them an excellent resource for topical art concerns. They are available through the website (click on above link) in PDF format complete with kit-set assemblage instructions.
A Ramp Magazine
Published bi-annually by Hamilton’s Ramp Gallery, this magazine provides a series of articles and artists pages that explore aspects of contemporary art culture in New Zealand. Edited by Anthony Byrt and Warren Olds, the magazine establishes itself within “notions of ‘process’ and 'connectedness’ ”, it reflects the network of people and ideas evolving within current art practises in this country.
Ramp magazines have a new name with every issue- these are available in PDF format by clicking on their linked titles. You'll also find a list of venues in New Zealand where printed copies can be found.
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