{"id":285736,"date":"2026-02-15T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/285736\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:31:08","slug":"exhibition-makes-intimidating-contemporary-art-made-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/285736\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition makes &#8216;intimidating&#8217; contemporary art made &#8216;accessible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Contemporary art can be &#8220;intimidating&#8221;, she said so &#8220;the whole idea behind the exhibition was to remove those barriers and make it more accessible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work of about 30 artists is showcased in the exhibition, including those from England, Scotland, Ireland as well as further afield like Papa New Guinea and aboriginal Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The collection is really rooted in bringing the work of other artists to the island,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It includes well-known pieces like Josef Albers&#8217;s Homage to the Square, which investigates colour perception, as well as a set of pieces exploring nursery rhymes by Paula Rego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contemporary art can be &#8220;intimidating&#8221;, she said so &#8220;the whole idea behind the exhibition was to remove those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-285736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}