GlobalYell’s blog news
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The Spotify playlist
Each week a selection of music is curated to go along with the blog. The playlist can be heard on the player above or by heading over to Spotify and…
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Aboriginal art in New York
Aboriginal art celebrates the land, for it is through painting, singing and dancing that the land can express and become itself. A show in New York’s Asia Society of seventy-four…
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White Cranes and Snowfall
In 2023, UK-based artist, Young In Hong, visited the demilitarised zone that divides the Korean Peninsula. The area, once the site of war, is now a haven, a place where…
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Hawaiian quilts and island ecology
A new book has just been published by Common Threads that explores fifteen contemporary quilts and their relationship to the ecology of Hawai’i. Marenka Thompson-Odlum, a Research Curator at the…
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Italy in New Zealand
Italian fashion is going to hit the Greymouth screen. Next month the Regent Theatre in Māwhera Greymouth is hosting the Cinema Italiano Festival/ Italian Film Festival. This event is in…
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Cataloguing and photographing the textile collection
The studio in Greymouth Māwhera is continuing to evolve as more pieces are added to the collection and as we prepare the space for the equipment to come over from…
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CuzyT
The recent trip to the Costume and Textile Association of Aotearoa New Zealand symposium in Whangārei included a surprising discovery. The North of the North Island/ Te Ika-a-Māui is home…
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A new use for newspaper
Newspaper has a new lease of life in the work of South African Tamlin Blake. Tamlin Blake’s art is concerned with the ways in which materials can be used and…
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The Price of Memory
In 2015, the National Gallery of Jamaica hosted an exhibition of 7 women artists. One of those artists was Miriam Hinds Smith. Miriam Hinds Smith is a Jamaican-born artist with…
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The Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist is compiled to complement the blog articles. The audio is on the Spotify platform and each piece has some relevance to the blog articles. Sometimes the…
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