Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan
Quietly powerful and immersive video works revealing the politics behind our view of landscape.
John Vea: Ini Mini Mani Mou
Powerful new work examining the complexities of the immigration process in Aotearoa New Zealand.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Exploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
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Piss off 2011
Our good friends at Strategy Design and Advertising produced this wrapping paper for the festive season. We couldn't have put it better ourselves.
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Then and now
Last year the Gallery acquired this magnificent early work by Petrus van der Velden:
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Fabriqué en Chine
The musée du quai Branly in Paris is currently showing the exhibition Māori: leur trésors ont une âme. Spotted among the exhibition related merchandise in the museum shop was this enticing Māori boomerang.
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Is there a doctor in the house?
Gerrit Dou's The Physician is a favourite work in our collection:
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Empress Eugénie
The Gallery library has received a new book about the art collection of Empress Eugénie, wife of Emperor Napoléon III.
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History in the making
Warren Feeney has written a new book on the history of the Canterbury Society of Arts.
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Crane in place
A concrete pad has been poured and the demo crane for our neighbours has been installed.