What’s On
Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.
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!
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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I dont want no retro spective
Let's talk titles again.
Not titles of paintings this time, but whole survey shows. Your life as an artist is being summed up in one exhibition, and what are you going to call it?
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Ruinlust
Close readers of this blog might have noticed that many of us – curators, teachers, public programmes folk, visitor hosts – are not in our usual offices but instead rubbing shoulders in the Gallery's library. And naturally, we're glad to see visitors. But a week or so ago the human residents of the library were thoroughly upstaged by – what do you know – a book. Or rather 'the book', because that's what visitors called it when they came in for a viewing. Its reputation preceded it.
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The future isn’t what it used to be
Nothing looks older today than yesterday's robots. Rewind through the history of science fiction and you'll find hundreds of robots to whom time has not been kind – creations that looked newer-than-new when they first emerged but now appear tragically tinny.
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But seriously
When it comes to contemporary painting, seriousness has a way of turning into solemnity, and solemn art is just asking for it.
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The Dutch 'Dude'
In-house disappointment at the closure of the Van der Velden exhibition has been lifted today by rumours of Hollywood interest in the story of the Dutch painter and his sorties into the weather-lashed upper reaches of the South Island alpine pass.
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When Dallington was green (not red)
It has dirty yellows and dun-greens, under silvery mid-winter light. You might even call it drab, a deliberate exercise in the un-picturesque. It's Dallington many decades ago, as seen by Russell Clark – a painting which, on an ordinary day, you might find yourself walking right past.
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Against Amnesia
When in doubt, I reach for the work of walker, watcher, landscape writer, polymath and maverick intellectual Rebecca Solnit.
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It's a gallery Jim, but not as we know it...
The flight-deck of the Starship Christchurch Art Gallery.
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JH & JG on NZ at VB
Watch Gallery director Jenny Harper discussing Michael Parekowhai's work at the 2011 Venice Biennale.