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This exhibition focuses on a series of breathtaking and captivating images, capturing little-known animal behaviors, rare species, and the awe-inspiring diversity of nature. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is a global event that has been dedicated to showcasing some of nature's most amazing and challenging aspects for 61 years. Hosted by the Natural History Museum in London, the competition attracts the world's finest nature photographers, demonstrating a combination of skill, luck, and most importantly—the beauty of nature.

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Safety in Numbers: Colin McCahon’s Dark Equations draws from Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki’s extensive holdings to explore a selection of the artist’s mysterious number paintings made between 1975 and 1976. Numbers first surfaced in McCahon’s work in the late 1950s and would become the primary subject of his art by the mid-1970s in the Teaching aids, Clouds, Noughts and crosses, and Rocks in the sky series. Within these works, Arabic and Roman numerals hover in darkness, appear at once tabulated and like geological strata, or recall complex mathematical equations on a school blackboard. The number paintings also refer to The Stations of the Cross, and communicate themes of life and death, as well as redemption and salvation. Safety in Numbers presents a puzzling yet visually unified chapter of the artist’s practice. While the stark block printing may appear straightforward, the works provide a profound reflection on art’s ability to communicate existential concerns, drawing viewers into a dialogue with McCahon’s coded symbolism. Beyond this, the exhibition also prompts a questioning of art’s role as a space for teaching and learning, and the challenges that come with interpretation.

This exhibition brings together a series of works from international private collections, all of which are being shown to the public for the first time. The exhibition spans over sixty years of Bourgeois's artistic career, from her early paintings in 1945 to her textile works from the last year of her life. Bourgeois is widely acclaimed for her psychologically charged and bold sculptural practice, exploring themes such as memory, family, body, and the subconscious, often drawing inspiration from her personal experiences. Her most famous works are a series of large-scale spider sculptures, which have been exhibited in many major international cities.