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Salutary note Judy Millar

Many events have been occurring around the country to mark the centenary of the birth of Colin McCahon, Aotearoa’s most notable painter. For the opening of one of those events – a new and remarkable exhibition of McCahon’s work currently on at the Auckland Art Gallery – I was invited to talk about what McCahon’s work meant to me.

It’s easy to take for granted a painter who was producing his most important work nearly half a century ago. In our current entertainment-filled

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