Art Designed to Fail – Artistic Intention v Consumer Rights
Years before Banksy made headlines with self destructing art, a prominent New Zealand artist told me about a sculpture he had sold. The work was in a display case and made…
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Buried Waka: The Crown’s Responsibilities for Unrecovered Taonga
When has an archaeological object been “found”? At first glance, it seems an oddly technical question with an obvious answer. But in Preece – Taonga Tūturu found at Rēkohu/Wharekauri, the Māori…
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James Young and the Museum Robbery: New Zealand’s First Art-Theft Case?
On 3 March 1866, the Supreme Court at Wellington dealt with a small, strange, and very early piece of New Zealand cultural heritage crime: R v James Young. Young pleaded guilty…
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