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This week on Standing Room Only, a strong series of visual arts stories - hence our musical theme: music concerning art galleries and art museums. After a look at what this week's budget offers the arts... the late sculptor Guy Ngan is remembered in two separate exhibitions - one at Auckland's Artspace, one at Lower Hutt's Dowse Gallery - and 'art detective' artist Bronwyn Holloway Smith is sent out to find some of Ngan's lost public art-works. A dance group from the tiny island of Rotuma are Artists in Residence for Auckland's Pacific Dance Festival, while a Cambodian photographer is using art to reconnect with refugees from the Killing Fields of the 1980s.
Photographer Sait Akkirman shows some of his favourite images of over 3200 art gallery openings, we meet the couple who are the new co-directors of the Govett Brewster Gallery in New Plymouth Aileen Burns and Johan Lundt, and the exquisite poetry of Chloe Honum. All this and At The Movies, the Three O'Clock Drama, and on the Laugh Track, Christchurch burlesque queen Feather Unsure. Plus wall to wall songs about art galleries and museums.
Pictured: Rako Pasefika
