“The Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth is the first museum in New Zealand devoted to a single artist.”
It’s the equivalent of the single-artist museums created overseas to honour artists such as Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Jean Dubuffet, Paul Gauguin. Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Clyfford Still, Jean Tinguely, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol, among others.
The Len Lye Centre, which opened on 25 July 2015, is built onto the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery on Queen Street, and visitors are able to pass from one building to the other. The Govett-Brewster continues its activities as New Zealand’s leading gallery of contemporary art.
The Centre has changing exhibitions of Lye’s work, including his sculptures, films, paintings and photographs. It attracts a constant flow of visitors, often more than a thousand per day. It has also received a great deal of media attention.
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