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male critics and their ‘trivializing’ of women’s art and outlined how women artist were pushing back even if dream of equality seemed "no closer, and the need to be distinctive in order to be effective still prevails." Writer Peter
Ireland wrote of Sotheran’s art criticism that she had the ‘ability to sense a new direction and formulate her hunches crisply…. always at her best when she analysed the sometimes difficult work of an artist she esteemed.’ During this time Sotheran also became increasingly interested in art museums and exhibitions and in 1986 was appointed as the fifth Director of the
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Stocker has noted, this reaction was in excess of anything seen in New Zealand museums before. He considered that by calling Te Papa ‘Our Place’ the museum had opened itself up to angry criticism of the way the Catholic faith was being treated by the institution. The result
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traditions. She saw it as creating a place where people could be "active participants in the formation of their own identity.” To activate this kind of public collaboration with the museum, Sotheran looked to private sector and entertainment focussed companies such as McDonalds and
Disneyland. “They
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Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The new institution was created from the merger of New Zealand's National Museum and National Art Gallery in a new building on the Wellington waterfront. From the beginning of her tenure
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Zealand. In 1983 she was invited to write the lead article for Art New Zealand’s special issue on women artists in which she considered whether their work would have to first take a separatist position before becoming integrated with mainstream art. Sotheran pulled no punches critiquing
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The construction of Te Papa was the biggest international museum project of the 1990s and included moving a hotel on wheels to enable the museum to be built on its waterfront site. Under
Sotheran's direction the opening of Te Papa in February 1998 was completed on time and on budget. Working with
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have a lot to teach us" Sotheran once commented. She considered that exhibition formats could play a pivotal part in this approach and that they should be provocative, dramatic and attractive rather than play a set educational role. As
Sotheran put it, “If it’s boring, we don’t want it.”
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was that 'senior management was threatened with violence and received abusive and threatening phone calls; a police-monitored security system was installed in
Sotheran's residence.’
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Sotheran weathered several controversies during her tenure at Te Papa, including ongoing criticism of the display of the national art collection and significant public protest when
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