tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post6952139041386668505..comments2024-03-30T15:57:12.660+13:00Comments on Not PC: Live blogging my visit to the new Len Lye galleryPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-17688264242820823032016-03-14T21:37:35.858+13:002016-03-14T21:37:35.858+13:00Hi Peter,
Hmmm, well I guess we will have to prob...Hi Peter,<br /> Hmmm, well I guess we will have to probably disagree, and I come from a family with a deep interest and connection with architecture and for sure I will probably disagree with at the very least one of them.<br /> Working in N.P, in a real industry, over the last few years I visited the site just after it opened and for those that ask above, its been subscribed to the extent that its paid for by the people of N.P via their taxes and the corporate push-overs like Shell and Todd that have “civic responsibility” read that one as you will and hey maybe I’m just a cynic when it comes to “crony capitalism”.<br /> <br /> So the building, yep looks very modern and “edgy” sitting there at the top of the town, but as a place once I got inside and studied it, I thought and thought and realised that its so badly designed its really nothing more than a multi-storey carpark looking for a purpose or calling outside of its practicality and that became my abiding impression a fancy clad multi storey car-park masquerading badly as a public space. <br /> Len Lye, interesting sort of stuff maybe, but I gave up doing navel gazing drugs sometime my mid-20s the rest of the stuff nothing more than posturing by an entitled elite. <br /> Verdict, did I pay for it ? No. (well not directly) Would I pay to see it? No.<br />One thing though, it was an hour of my time I cannot ever get back. <br /><br />Regards<br /><br />A Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-87959599611005173962016-03-12T13:42:25.496+13:002016-03-12T13:42:25.496+13:00Thanks for this post. NP is my home town and I re...Thanks for this post. NP is my home town and I recall it fondly - a great outdoors place but out on a limb with a couple of hours drive to escape the province. Since the old folks died I don't have much reason to visit but always love it when there and would happily return there to live. Its probably done OK on the back of oil and dairy which have been consistent performers until recently - the future may be a bit more challenging. <br /><br />The Govett Brewster gallery was a bit 'out there' many years ago and I recall an evening with Billy Apple as a youth. Even the arty farty types thought snot and semen on a tissue was hardly art. The good old days.<br /><br />3:16Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-6009699489940398252016-03-11T14:24:53.641+13:002016-03-11T14:24:53.641+13:00I really need to get up to New Plymouth and see th...I really need to get up to New Plymouth and see this place in the flesh.Andersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-83363266241741910042016-03-11T11:37:49.007+13:002016-03-11T11:37:49.007+13:00It looks wickedly expensive for New Plymouth, do t...It looks wickedly expensive for New Plymouth, do they have the journal ledger on display. Perhaps Maori paid for it. paul scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675247055484136242noreply@blogger.com