What’s On
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
A major survey exhibition of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb.
From Here on the Ground
Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops. Open now!
Cora-Allan: Encountering Aotearoa
A major body of new work that considers the whenua from the vantage point of the moana.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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Demolishing Christ Church Cathedral?
Back off everyone. The Cathedral will be demolished. You're welcome to as many thoughts and opinions as you like. Any more bids? Thank you sir, we won't see that one either. The bids are closing. Last chance. Anyone else want to throw in an opinion? Going, going, gone.
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O'Reilly/McCahon: an Easter meditation
An Easter-themed excerpt from an article published in 2010 in The Journal of New Zealand Art History...
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Architectural renderings
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.
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But is it art?
Strolling bobbies, mini skirts and Morris Minors, plus a zippy Ron Goodwin soundtrack – 1960s Christchurch comes back to life.
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Kiwi fortune hunters
It was surprising for many of us to read in the Press recently about the planned replacement for the broken BNZ in Cathedral Square.
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Digital forensics
I'd been meaning to nail the location of Petrus van der Velden's moody 1890 charcoal drawing, 'Near Sumner', for a while...
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A poet in our midst
Portrait of an Unknown Man – one of the earliest portraits in the collection – has recently been identified as a portrait of the seventeenth century English poet Edmund Waller (1606–1687).
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4 December 1835: Happy Birthday, Mr Butler
Samuel Butler's 1873 self-portrait is one of a number of works that has been identified as needing conservation repairs – as well as a new photograph.
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Christchurch Cathedral in 1878...
...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?
