What’s On
Yona Lee: Fountain in Transit
A lively, restorative under-stairs sculpture for Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
One O'Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age
Dynamic and vibrant prints from a fast-changing world.
Dummies & Doppelgängers
The unforgettable art of being someone else.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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Study (Woman in a wide black hat) by Raymond McIntyre
This article first appeared as 'The Muse' in The Press on 25 August 2015.
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Maori Carved Figure. Rotorua. N.Z.
This article first appeared as 'Picture perfect postcards of our prominent places' in The Press on 25 March 2015.
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A Reading from Plato by Gertrude Hammond
This article first appeared as 'Mulling matters of inequality' in The Press on 3 February 2015.
Exhibition
David Cook: Meet Me in the Square
Cathedral Square, Centennial Pool, Lancaster Park, schoolboys, punks, nuns – a photographic journey through 1980s Christchurch.
Notes
An architectural modernist relic
With so many 'old dungers' banished to oblivion in these parts, it's now difficult to find evidence, within the four avenues at least, that Christchurch had existed at all before, say, about 1983...
Exhibition
Paul Johns: South Pacific Sanctuary / Peraki / Banks Peninsula
The consideration of Japanese whale-hunting activity and ensuing protest in nearby southern waters has led to a reflection on our local whaling past, highlighting changing and divergent attitudes to animal life.
Article
Stakes in the ground
Last, Loneliest, Loveliest is New Zealand's first official presence at the International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, and takes its alliterative title from Rudyard Kipling's poem, 'The Song of the Cities', which gives four lines each to various cities from the British Empire, including Auckland:
Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart–
On us, on us the unswerving season smiles,
Who wonder 'mid our fern why men depart
To seek the Happy Isles!
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Still life with flowers in a basket by Pieter Hardimé
This article first appeared as 'Allegory of life's beauty, brevity and fragility' in The Press on 15 August 2014.
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West Coast Road Trip
Survival skills for the new Christchurch: one of these is getting out more.