Steady on
Around the end of April the Walters Prize selection committee will produce a more conventional list of older finalists
Drawing the line
More university art schools will come under severe pressure from the Government via the Tertiary Education Commission to reduce staff and student numbers
HK OK
Dealers will swing their art fair energy from Europe to Asia
Still life
A lot of art will be made and a heap of museum time and money expended to glorify the completely senseless slaughter of World War I
Man alone
A lone New Zealander will slope over to Sydney to install his work in the 18th Biennale of Sydney
Boy oh boy
More men will get more solo shows in the public art museums
Time Lord
In Auckland T J McNamara will ease into his 47th year of reviewing art for the NZ Herald
Painting by numbers
More figurative paintings will create more auction records
Northern exposure
Te Papa will start wishing it had never come up with the idea of putting an outreach gallery into South Auckland
How great thou art
Everyone will be super excited by the awesome art stuff that will be tweeted throughout the year #whoa #thrilling #because
But who’s counting
Over the net will publish its 4,000th post
The Scottish play
The Auckland Art Gallery will announce the mother of all art works is to hang in its foyer
On reflection
The Govett-Brewster will find out whether or not that shiny mirror surface on the Len Lye Centre is feasible and, if it is, whether it’s actually a good idea
Slice and dice
Creative New Zealand’s budget will be spread even thinner across a wider range of art forms
Movement
Christchurch Art Gallery will straighten up
