A special one-month programme to coincide with the showing of Michael Parekowhai’s 54th Venice Biennale 2011 exhibition On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer. The exhibition featured He Kōrero Pūrākau mo te Awanui o Te Motu: story of a New Zealand river, an extraordinary and ornately carved red Steinway grand piano that was played daily.
Showed alongside Parekowhai’s works were four paintings by Colin McCahon and three installations by Jim Allen, selected from Te Papa’s art collection.