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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
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Street urchins, blue moons and rare visions
Even in a city where surreal scenes have become somewhat routine, the sight of the Isaac Theatre Royal's eight-tonne dome, suspended like a great alien craft, had the power to turn heads and drop jaws. Preserved inside a strange white shroud while the theatre was slowly deconstructed around it was a jewel of Christchurch's decorative arts heritage – a 105 year-old Italianate plaster ceiling featuring a circular painted reverie on the theme of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The dome, along with the rest of the theatre, is currently being restored as part of an ambitious rebuild that is expected to be completed in 2015 at a cost of over $30 million.
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Selfie
This Aussie-coined expression was recently named word of the year, but the notion's pretty old hat round here.
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Blurred Lines
The Gallery's newest exhibition, Shifting Lines, makes for memorable viewing at our Tuam St space.
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Snug as a bug in a polarfleece rug
There was something a little bit sweet about these blankets and old carpets being used to wrap these pipes currently running out of the Gallery carpark as part of the relevelling project.
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Master Secretary
"A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires."
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
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Behold, the Great Wall of CAG
We don't have too many visitors to the Gallery building just now, but those who do turn up will be able to admire our new forecourt feature.
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Clutha
Making the trip between Queenstown and Alexandra recently I was struck, as always, by the sight of the massive Clyde Dam.
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Probably not a sign of good parenting
con·flict.ed
kənˈflikt'ed
1. Explaining to your kids that writing on other people's property is wrong while getting out of the car to take a picture for the work blog.
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50s Models Series by Vivian Lynn
This article first appeared as 'Ahead of her time' in The Press on 18 October 2013