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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World's feeblest street artwork discovered in Christchurch
Move over, Banksy. Take a breather, Otis Frizzell. The Christchurch Art Gallery's elite force of street art archaeologists have located what is, according to our instruments, the world's feeblest work of protest art. Here it is:
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The Burnside Biennale of Contemporary Art
What I fear along with many is that we're seeing the emergence of a so-called 'donut city', where all the social and commercial energy has been spun out to the malls and industrial parks on the edges. And you know where most of our existing public art would end up in a donut city? It would end up 'in the hole' – stuck in an empty centre.
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Heavier than stones
Let's face it, it's not often you read about Paris and think of Christchurch.
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A gift!
Just when you think there's something to celebrate, there turns out to be something else to celebrate.
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'This place that we're in now...'
In the next issue of Bulletin, Christchurch writer Sally Blundell talks to artist Julia Morison about her post-quake sculptures and 'liqueurfaction' paintings, which go on show on Friday in Christchurch Art Gallery's latest Outer Spaces project. Here's a little of what Julia has to say:
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When is a dog a mouse?
Throughout the centuries man has delighted in creating representations of his canine companions.
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Surrealism lives (beside the red zone)
If you've done your Modern Art 101, then you'll probably remember the famous line of Comte de Lautréamont (aka Isidore Ducasse) that inspired Andre Breton and Co. back in the heady early days of Surrealism. 'As beautiful', Lautréamont wrote, 'as the chance encounter on an ironing board of a sewing machine and an umbrella.'
Exhibition
Children's Charter
Mark Braunias lets loose his cast of drawn and painted characters in the Gallery’s education corridor.
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Scenes from an install
In Felicity's introduction to Julia Morison's soon-opening show, she calls the works 'nothings and somethings, odds and ends, endings and beginnings'. They're all in play – along with odds and ends of other kinds – in these shots from the install-in-progress. And yes, you sharp-eyed spotters of things Gothic, that's the word 'Macabre' on Scott's shirt...