{"id":564,"date":"2016-02-11T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2021-09-12T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T00:29:04","slug":"towards-variations-on-a-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Towards variations on a theme <h3>Considering <em>Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show<\/em><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before arriving at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandartgallery.com\/whats-on\/exhibition\/necessary-distraction-a-painting-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show<\/em><\/a> at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T\u0101maki, I am aware of two things. First, that the exhibition comprises work by artists from Aotearoa. Second, that its installation design includes sometimes unclad, sometimes unpainted walls. These, it transpires, are visible even before you enter the exhibition proper. Crossing the threshold, I come to the show\u2019s introductory text, which I read, seeking an explanation for the walls. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pantograph-punch.com\/post\/considering-necessary-distraction-a-painting-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading<\/a> on The Pantograph Punch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before arriving at Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T\u0101maki, I am aware of two things. First, that the exhibition comprises work by artists from Aotearoa. Second, that its installation design includes sometimes unclad, sometimes unpainted walls. These, it transpires, are visible even before you enter the exhibition proper. Crossing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[69,61,60,59,67,56,51,58,68,54,55,64,42,66,50,52,65,53,62,57,63],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-adrienne-vaughan","tag-andrew-barber","tag-anoushka-akel","tag-barbara-tuck","tag-dan-arps","tag-emma-fitts","tag-james-cousins","tag-jeena-shin","tag-julian-hooper","tag-kim-pieters","tag-kirstin-carlin","tag-milli-jannides","tag-natasha-conland","tag-ngataiharuru-taepa","tag-nick-austin","tag-nicola-farquhar","tag-oliver-perkins","tag-patrick-lundberg","tag-saskia-leek","tag-simon-ingram","tag-stella-corkery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}