What a crazy few days Wellington has just had; with openings at Enjoy and the Adam Art Gallery, One Day Sculpture projects by Roman Ondak and Billy Apple, as well as the ODS series Symposium and a last minute work by Santiago Sierra, to boot.
Among the crowds of local and visiting art-world insiders however, it was great to see a larger slice of the population getting involved - from the woman demanding her money back after Jane Rendell's keynote lecture (that's just not cricket!), to the many curious Wellingtonians engaging with/bewildered by Apple's work in the Botanic Gardens.
What a pity then, that after all the excitement and constructive art activity, the only thing to be mentioned in the media (on the front page of the Dominion Post I'll add) is an unfounded, dirt digging critique of Sierra's work: "I don't know about [justifying] it economically..." states an apparently 'letdown' viewer... The mind boggles.
Above image: J. Booth
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