catalogue or a book. I kept to one section (pop and concept art etc) so I can recall most of it. The old NZ art all looks rather drab... Fascinating post: thank you. Re: the New Zealand gothic, I wrote an article on the mode's 19th-century roots in New Zealand fictive and ethnographic writing last year, if you're interested. Seems to me there's a lot more still to be said about the gothic and its applications to New Zealand understandings of race, landscape, and "threat." Yes - I didn't know him - but I recognize the sculptures. I saw some interesting sculptures in New Plymouth on the coast, I don't think I photographed them. But I see he is down there and has some on the walkway where we did walk - and they ring a bell - and I was interested in them having recently read Dunn's book on the history of NZ sculpture. When if ever I get a really reliable car I'll head down there again. Unfortunately I blew head gasket which was pretty scary from financial point of view... But his two rocks with triangles inlaid etc were in the foyer. Also there was a Mel Bochner, a work by Hamilton (using old "blue prints" of tyre manufacturing or design stages, a work shown via computer adn a monitor by Daniel von Sturmer, a huge display of glass, an "infinity room" with mirors so you felt suspended in space and there were infinite images of anyone