Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan
Quietly powerful and immersive video works revealing the politics behind our view of landscape.
John Vea: Ini Mini Mani Mou
Powerful new work examining the complexities of the immigration process in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Dear Shurrie
The art, influence and friendships of sculptor and teacher Francis Shurrock
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Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Dropping the ball
Great to read in the latest New Zealand Heritage magazine (winter, 2014) that planning is now well underway to resurect the Lyttelton Timeball Station
How Did You Do That?
How often have you stood in front of an art work and wondered how the artist did that?
We're hosting here, there and at SOFA
In September last year I wrote a blog about the different offsite venues that we've been hosting at. It's time for an update.
I will not use gnome puns
Two 8-foot mirror finished steel gnomes in climbing harnesses are spectacle enough without the need for word play.
Collection Tarot
One of the things I've really missed in these post-earthquake days is contact with collection works in the storage areas.
Hacked Off
A topical (or recently topical at least) work from our collection today, from none other than William Hogarth.
If a tree falls in a forest
but a conservation minister doesn't hear it fall, does it make a dollar?
Hello, my name is...(#2)
It's time to meet another of our wonderful visitor hosts. Here are Andrew Shepherd's answers to my ten questions: