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What’s On
Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
New exhibition now open.
Living Archives
Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa
Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Learning from New Orleans
So your city's broken, the arts community is in disarray, and – after close inspection by experts in hard hats and hi-vis vests – it turns out your long-held faith in the role of art in post-quake Christchurch is suffering from stress fractures, subsidence and some kind of spiritual dry rot. What do you do?
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Signs. They're everywhere in the Gallery, often on top of other signs.
A message from the ancestors
The most memorable sculptures of 2011 were made five hundred years ago.
Manchester Street
Manchester Street, Christchurch by Louise Henderson was painted in 1929 and shows a streetscape that remained largely unchanged until the earthquake of 22 February.
Easy as abc…
One of the books I remember vividly from studying NZ lit at Canterbury University in the early 1990s is the Murray Edmond and Mary Paul-edited anthology The New Poets of the 80s.
Words to build on
Disasters mean loss and loss means remembrance and remembrance means memorials and monuments.
Hooked on art
When exhibitions and collections team leader Sean Duxfield and his team got back into the Gallery building after February's earthquake, one of the first tasks on their list was to check and make safe the collection.
Godley House
The Press announced today that another iconic Banks Peninsula building is to be demolished, Godley House at Diamond Harbour.
Art News and the Gallery
The new issue of Art News New Zealand is out now, and features a run down of the state of the arts in post-quake Christchurch.