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unvarnished facts, reckless guesswork, insinuations and possible inventions that have arrived at overthenet.blog@gmail.com: in the tradition of creative nz the person with the most knowledge of how to organize nz representation at the next venice biennale is leaving the organisation • one of japan’s most prominent art collectors, founder of naoshima, the famous art destination island, and nz resident made a recent tour of auckland dealer galleries; any purchases have not been revealed • ngahiraka mason is leaving  her position of indigenous curator, maori art at the aag • missal adnan yildiz of artspace and robert leonard of city gallery had a very public spat and elizabeth caldwell told them to behave • the dom post no longer has any expertise on reporting the arts with the departure of tom cardy • the te papa out source cyber think tank is going to be called an ‘incubator’ • rhana devenport is the front runner in the race to be the next nz commissioner for the venice biennale • reuben friend ex city gallery is taking on the directorship of pataka in porirua • any missed details, indignant denials or additions gratefully received, and any that makes us laugh out loud will be richly rewarded

Man up

The word is that Te Papa has appointed two women to senior Associate Director positions in its new set up (more on this next week) adding to a growing number of recently appointed women to top jobs:

Viv Beck – Deputy Director Auckland Art Gallery

Elizabeth Caldwell – Director City Gallery Wellington

Courtenay Johnston – Director Dowse Art Gallery

Zara Stanhope – Principal Curator Auckland Art Gallery

Helen Kedgley - Director of Pataka Art + Museum

A bit early to say if this will make a big difference but if Wellington City Gallery is anything to go by (they have had a woman director for over 20 years) it looks like the men are safe for the moment.

The City Gallery has just put out its years schedule admittedly a big step-up for a gallery that has always been so secretive over its future plans. Key exhibitions showing this year:

Gregory Crewdson

Shane Cotton

Glen Hayward

Len Lye

Also showing:
Daniel Betham

Tim Wigmore

Currently showing: 
Ben Cauchi

James R Ford

Oh Jaewoo

Wayne Youle

You can see the full post February list (including the miserably small representation of women artists for the year) here

As a reader notes there are already a number of women art museum directors already: Tina Barton (Adam), Julie Catchpole (Nelson), Fiona Ciaran (Aigantighe), Rhana Devenport (GBAG), Jenny Harper (Christchurch), Penelope Jackson (Tauranga), Cherie Meecham (Waikato) and Linda Tyler (Gus Fisher). There are more we are sure, email us and we'll add them to the list.