Started my only full day in Auckland by hitting the iconic Sky Tower. Looking up…
…and looking down… (Find my hotel: “Pop, drop & GO”? Find Rangitoto Island or Mt. Victoria?)
Garden strolls…
The Auckland Art Gallery. This batch features part of the “Robertson Gift” and includes Dali (note detail), Braques, Gaugin, Matisse and a Picasso depicting Françoise Gilot and their two kids, etc.
The Auckland Art Gallery. This batch starts with a picture of a picture of the Robertson home with the paintings on their walls. (How many years in private, and how many other artworks are not in museums?) Otherwise, a miscellaneous collection of pix from the “Portals & Omens” & a Gothic hallway…
This batch is all in one particularly great room. Called: “The Threads of Time” that link will take you to a 93 page pdf about Travel, Trade & Textiles, the theme. I focus on Brueghel the Younger’s “Village Fair,” so old, so cool, and a few others. Zoom in…!
This batch starts with a drop in: Te Aka Matua, then some highlights from the Maori collection, some miscellaneous coolness, a focus on a painting depicting a thwarted & frustrated Alexander Pope. The batch ends exiting through the gift shop, and the last pic is not in the AAG, but a shop across the street…
Having left the Auckland Art Gallery, I walked up to K-Road, continuing to find art everywhere…
Ubering back to the waterfront, I took a ferry out to Devonport and climbed Mt. Victoria. A great alternative to the Rangitata Island boat I missed in the morning, closer, smaller, easier, and maybe cooler? Note Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth in port (if it’d been QM2 I’da freaked out!). Thus endeth the day…
I’ll close this post with a pic of a pic in my hotel room, of my delightful ferry destination: Devonport…
