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It's pretty certainly the oldest shop in Christchurch. Although to be fair there's not really much competition for that title any more...

For me, the best bits in vintage photographs are often the bits the photographer didn't really mean to capture.

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū won a Civic Trust Award last night for the outdoor exhibition Reconstruction: conversations on a city. The exhibition on Worcester Boulevard closes this Sunday - the Reconstruction publication will be available within the next few days...

The popularity of Reconstruction: Conversations on a City has led to the exhibition being extended until 14 October, and the development of a publication.

A word that has been bandied about in and out of Christchurch, left, right and centre post February 22 is Resilience, a word that has little impact now whenever I hear it mentioned in relation to the earthquakes.

Wait 'til night comes and park up your car outside 464 Colombo Street in the new Sydenham. The neighbourhood is quiet, no late night shopping here – there seems nothing of that sort likely to turn up here for a fair while yet.

We are receiving quite a few requests for reproductions of the works in our Reconstruction exhibition.

'We're gonna give an exhibition.
We're gonna find out what it is all about.'

JJ Cale got it about right.

Not even dark, cold, grey weather on Sunday could deter the citizens of Christchurch coming out to hear art historian John Wilson as he walked and talked among the magnificent Reconstruction panels on Worcester Boulevard.

Our latest show, Reconstruction: conversations on a city, never closes.

The exhibition opens on Worcester Boulevard on Saturday morning. So our exhibitions team, with assistance from Scenic Solutions, has been hard at work building the display stands over the past few days.

'Around midnight, the presses started to roll...'

A carefully drawn plan on a sheet of paper: it's interesting to reflect that most cities didn't exist in this form before a single street had been formed, or hardly a building raised.

It's difficult not to have one's head filled with buildings right now – and not just because we're working on the edges of the broken town.

...feels remarkably close to Christchurch Cathedral at this present moment. I have no idea of what the lesson is here, but there surely is one. Any suggestions?

Sydenham-based photographer Doc Ross and his camera have been investigating the Christchurch urban environment for the past 14 years.

Today is the fifth anniversary of the February earthquake of 2011 which devastated Christchurch. During that time, we and our city have been through so many different phases.

Aaron Kreisler is Head of the School of Fine Art at the University of Canterbury. He talked to Bulletin about challenges and opportunities for the arts in our city and what art can contribute to the future of Christchurch.

Martin Trusttum, project manager for Ōtākaro Art by the River, and founder of temporary gallery space ArtBox, writes on the role of art in Christchurch.

A technology that allows a building to effectively 'float' on its foundations during an earthquake is about to be applied to the Gallery.

The latest issue of Photoforum's MoMento journal (issue 14, January 2014) focuses on the work of three photographers with strong ties to Christchurch and their haunting images of this battered city post February 22, 2011.

Earthquake images from 125 years ago

Repair work has started on Christchurch Art Gallery, with the re-levelling tender that will relieve stress in the building's foundations having been awarded.

With the removal of the final cordon around the red zone in the central city last weekend, I came in with my family to have a look around the newly reopened areas of the CBD. We stopped to watch the parade of soldiers who were being thanked by the Prime Minister, the Mayor of Christchurch and Kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu for their work in controlling the central city red zone and with community welfare in the immediate aftermath of the February earthquake.

English artist Sarah Lucas was installing her show in Two Rooms, Auckland, when the 22 February earthquake struck.

Lunchtime on a shining summer's day and you head for the ruin of Christchurch Cathedral. If you get there by twelve you can usually nab one of the bench seats along the back wall, where sun buckets down through the long-gone roof and warms the stonework behind you.