Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Tīrama Mai 2025
Tīrama Mai is back this winter to celebrate Puanga Matariki with an array of artistic lighting and cultural displays in the heart of Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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.
E tuwhera ana te wharetoi i kā rā e 7 o te wiki, 10am - 5pm
Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Uruka utukore, ahokore utukore
Free entry, free wifi
Playing to the Faithful
The 2011 Christchurch Arts Festival has been full of highlights, from theatre to dance to the visual arts. However, it's been the music that has made the biggest impression on me.
Host a brooch
A number of Gallery staff are planning to take part in the final Host a Brooch event this weekend.
Roger's version
When Roger Boyce's one-hundred work series called The Illustrated History of Painting went on show at Christchurch Art Gallery last year (and served momentarily as a base for high-level pow-wows amongst Brownlee, Key and other members of the quakestocracy), plenty of people noted that the series could become a great book.
Meeting Douglas MacDiarmid
When I visited Paris after the Biennale, I enjoyed a memorable evening with New Zealand painter and long-time Paris resident, Douglas MacDiarmid. The Gallery bought a small work of his from the estate of Albion Wright about a year ago for the Norman Barrett bequest collection. They all knew each other, so it was apt.
Disclaimer
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Max Gimblett on show in Pittsburgh
New York-based New Zealand artist Max Gimblett has a new exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, US. The Sound of One Hand opened on 17 September, and it would have been nice to be there.
Cranes
Every work reproduced on this website that is still protected by copyright is cleared for use and we have been using our enforced closure to seek new permissions and clarify existing ones.
The kind of 'liquefaction' we love
Painter Tjalling de Vries dispenses some of the good goo in his Christchurch studio. For more of the runny stuff, see the Rolling Maul feature in our new Bulletin.
