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What’s On
Peter Robinson: Charcoal Drawing
A roomful of industrial-scale beams folded into unexpected and compelling new forms.
Hye Rim Lee: Swan Lake
An immersive, dreamlike digital reinterpretation of the classic Tchaikovsky ballet.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Exploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
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Hiding in plain sight
We've all heard the stories about confusions occurring on the edge where art meets life.
LOVING THE BULLDOG
You could be forgiven for thinking that Wayne Youle is giving the French Bulldog a big hug.
Parekowhai in Paris
Fresh from its recent success at the Venice Biennale, two works from Michael Parekowhai's project On First Looking into Chapman's Homer have travelled to Paris.
Strange days for public art in ChCh
These are truly strange days for art in Christchurch, and for public art especially.
Pressed Letters
Two recent additions to the Gallery's library highlight letterpress printing is alive and well in Australasia.
This way art (if you can stand the hike)
Robert Smithson's Spiral jetty might be one of the most perverse works of public art ever made.
4 December 1835: Happy Birthday, Mr Butler
Samuel Butler's 1873 self-portrait is one of a number of works that has been identified as needing conservation repairs – as well as a new photograph.
Empress Eugénie
The Gallery library has received a new book about the art collection of Empress Eugénie, wife of Emperor Napoléon III.