Bunker notes

4 February 2012, Felicity Milburn

Eye worms

One nice thing about art is that it's not locked down to the physical location in which you first encounter it. Once it's in your head, you can take it anywhere...

3 February 2012, Justin Paton

In Felicity's introduction to Julia Morison's soon-opening show, she calls the works 'nothings and somethings, odds and ends, endings and beginnings'. They're all in play – along with odds and ends of other kinds – in these shots from the install-in-progress. And yes, you sharp-eyed spotters of things Gothic, that's the word 'Macabre' on Scott's shirt...

3 February 2012, Felicity Milburn

Aw, bless their little aerosol-coated hearts

Let it not be said that Christchurch's vandals, ahem, street artists, lack a sense of community spirit.

2 February 2012, Justin Paton

Room with a (hell of a) view

There are some intriguing things to look at in Julia Morison's show, Meet me on the other side, opening next week in the NG building over on the east side of the red zone.

1 February 2012, Justin Paton

The Boulevard of Broken Art

Well before the earthquakes, Christchurch had a reputation as a tough town for public art. The city's public spaces are haunted by the ghosts of several major sculptures that never made it to completion. And several local sculptors still carry some psychological scar tissue from their forays into the public realm.

1 February 2012, Justin Paton

Getting a hand up

I did something really weird yesterday.

31 January 2012, Peter Vangioni

Wharariki Dreaming

Located at the top of the South Island's West Coast, near Cape Farewell, Wharariki Beach is a stunning area where the land meets the sea in dramatic fashion.

30 January 2012, Tim Jones

Passage of time

Cairo's Bab Zuweila as seen by Richard Wallwork in 1926.

29 January 2012, David Simpson

It's funny really...

Once a week or thereabouts we're granted a half-hour window during which we're allowed into the Gallery building.

28 January 2012, Peter Vangioni

Lyttelton from the water

The Gallery holds two ink drawings by William Holmes (1825–1885) including this intensely detailed view of Lyttelton from the water which he drew in 1852, just 15 months after the first four ships arrived with the Canterbury Association settlers.

27 January 2012, Tim Jones

No thank you, Your Majesty

A list of those Britons who declined honours between 1951 and 1999 has just been published by the Cabinet Office and widely reported in the British press. You can see the full list here.

26 January 2012, Peter Vangioni

Another nor’wester descends on Canterbury

Some people fear them, others revel in the unforgiving dry heat – love them or hate them the legendary Canterbury nor'wester is one of the defining features of this region in the summer months and there is a real doozy blowing outside at the moment.

26 January 2012, Peter Vangioni