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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All things must pass
Last Friday evening saw two Christchurch noise bands take to the rooftop of the Physics Room building on Tuam street to perform a short set to the wider cbd and anyone who cared to listen.
Staithes
Staithes is a village on the North Yorkshire coast, a few miles north of Whitby and surprisingly close to the industrial sprawl of Teesside.
Build it, and they will come
After Feb 2011 we became the shop with no gallery. Now we are the shop with no street. Confused?
Creepy Spidey
On a recent holiday in Sydney I visited the Museum of Contemporary Art. With its stunning location over-looking the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, the sculpture terrace on the top floor is a great place to enjoy a coffee and slice of cake.
Nosferatwho?
For me, the best bits in vintage photographs are often the bits the photographer didn't really mean to capture.
On Being a Curator (1)
'Am I a curator when I go to my wardrobe and select a few clothes for my naked form for a day?' asks Grant Smithies in his tongue-in-cheek column in the Sunday Star Times on 21 October.
Ms Kia Ora
It's not uncommon to be wrongly addressed in one way or another in general Gallery correspondence. We still get letters and circulars addressed to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, which has been closed some ten years or so.