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.
Dear Shurrie
The art, influence and friendships of sculptor and teacher Francis Shurrock
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Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Uruka utukore, ahokore utukore
Free entry, free wifi
Notes
Earthquake Gallery shop footage
Comment is superfluous here really, but we thought we would show what the scene was like in the Gallery shop on the day of the earthquake.
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Library clean up
A crack team of librarians has turned chaos into order in the Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives
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Worth the wait
The balcony has become the favourite spot for Gallery managers to marvel at the queue for admission to the Ron Mueck show.
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Ron Mueck comments
We've put a comments book in the Ron Mueck show where visitors have expressed their pleasure, and in a few cases their disquiet. My favourite comment is "It looked scary but wasn't" which is in fact rather a profound thought.
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Library unscathed
While some buildings in Christchurch suffered a lot of damage in Saturday's earthquake, others, often close by, escaped with none. Within the Gallery library, some shelves and filing cabinets were emptied, but this tower of books was exactly as a I left it on Friday afternoon.
I draw no grand conclusions from this other than the self-evident truth that earthquakes and their effects remain entirely unpredictable.
Tim Jones
Librarian
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Digital Resurrection
I have been busy adding digitized versions of various print publications to the website this week.
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We've been geo-tagging
We've started adding geo-tags to the works in our collection that show a real place. However, we're stuck on a few and we'd love to hear from you if you know where any of the locations are.
