What’s On
Leo Bensemann: Paradise Garden
A collection of Leo Bensemann’s extraordinary Mohua Golden Bay landscape paintings.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Our new collection exhibition is now open.
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.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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All off water
We Christchurch folk have probably always been a bit smug about our delicious artesian water...
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This is not a vitrine, this is an ocean
When artist/curator Jim Vivieaere died in Auckland on June 3 this year, he was in the process of completing an exhibition for the Vitrine space at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato.
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Spring fever
She's had a fair old rollicking lately, but there are definite signs out there that Canterbury is turning the corner - in a seasonal sense at least.
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Happy Snapper
He's done a lot since then, but to me John Reynolds will always be the artist who walked from the Arts Centre into town to buy a roll of film,* but was so entranced by the beauty of fallen leaves in the Avon River that he used it all up on the way back.
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KO WAI KOE?
On this day in 1987, the Maori Language Act came into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand.
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When green is the new brown
You can't polish a turd – or so they say, but full credit to the Christchurch City Council for trying.
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A war played out twice a week
This month marks thirty years since the South African rugby team began its controversial 'Springbok' tour of New Zealand in the face of widespread and growing protest.
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Ah, the good old days...
One of the strangest things about Christchurch's post-quake afterlife is how quiet and empty those once-bustling central city streets have become.
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Tips for Trying Times #1 (an occasional series)
1. NEVER go to bed in anything you wouldn't want to wear in the middle of the street.
2. NEVER put the cornflour at the front of your pantry and ALWAYS close the pantry doors.
3. DON'T drive down Madras Street north of Bealey Avenue (contender for The Bounciest Liquefaction-enhanced City Street award), but if you do...
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Just because...
Obviously, there doesn't really need to be a reason for putting up an image as dazzling as this, but: today is National Poetry Day.