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The artists BMD, in their BMD Art-Cube, an installation to tie in with the opening of the Len Lye Centre this weekend. On Sunday, people will be invited to colour in the walls of the cube.Robert ...
Len Lye's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1,360 USD to 30,240 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2010 the record price for ...
Exploring sound as a medium is at the centre of NPDC’s Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre’s new exhibition Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound, which opens this Saturday 17 May.
Before he went to England in 1926, Len Lye had worked as a farm laborer, carpenters’ mate, quarry laborer, miner, packer, sheep-shearer and scenario writer for an Australian film company.
Len Lye, film still from “Prime Time” (c. 1958), from material made available by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and preserved by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (image courtesy Govett-Brewster ...
Len Lye's philosophy that 'great architecture goes 50/50 with great art' provided key inspiration for Pattersons. By creating a dynamic, shiny and sinuous façade that brings to mind a moving theatre ...
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery on Queen Street houses the Len Lye Centre, home to a vast collection of Lye’s groundbreaking work, including textiles, photograms and experimental films (some 18,000 ...
Tusalava (1929) by Len Lye, New Zealand One of the exhibition's most extraordinary artworks is Tusalava (1929), a 10-minute animated film by New Zealand-born Len Lye.
Nephew of famed New Zealand born artist and filmmaker Len Lye, Ms Cosson says her husband's family were lovable oddballs and David was no different. David Lye and Norma Cosson in the early 1990s.
A kinetic sculpture has come to life nearly 60 years after renowned artist Len Lye first came up with the concept. The newly constructed massive Convolutions, now showing at NPDC's Govett-Brewster ...