What’s On
Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
A major survey exhibition of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb.
From Here on the Ground
Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops. Open now!
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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.
A quick round
With our own doors still closed, I recently did the rounds of a few Christchurch Galleries seeking an art fix.
Ugly beauty
Ugly beauty came over me like a thrilling rash.
Ugly beauty warmed me like a slap on the face.
Ugly beauty helped me rise above the crowd
and even if it meant sitting on the face
of the hunchback of Notre Dame
I quickly got over the obsolete shame.