What’s On
Leo Bensemann: Paradise Garden
A collection of Leo Bensemann’s extraordinary Mohua Golden Bay landscape paintings.
New exhibition now open!
Edwards + Johann: Mutabilities—propositions to an unknown universe
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Our new collection exhibition is now open.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
Proceed and be Bold: The Pear Tree Press
The Pear Tree Press is the latest in a series of book related exhibitions held in collaboration between the Christchurch Art Gallery and the Christchurch City Libraries at their Peterbourgh street branch.
NUD CYCLADIC I by Sarah Lucas
This article first appeared as 'A visible means of support' in The Press on 26 September 2014.
Inducted
I attended an Induction course to the Christchurch Art Gallery building site last week with fellow collegues Chris Pole and Kirsty Mathieson - a run down on the dos and don'ts when visiting the gallery as it undergoes repairs.
Party on Madras
It's less that a week until our Out of the Box family fun day on Saturday 27 September and we're getting excited!
One Time offer
It is not every day, said the American poet and insurance lawyer Wallace Stevens, that the world arranges itself into a poem.
But sometimes you get lucky.
Art and politics
As New Zealand prepares to go to the polls on the eve of what has surely been the most colourful election campaign season in the nation's history, we present a selection of works from Christchurch Art Gallery's collection on the theme of politics.
Vale Peter Gutteridge
Very sad to hear news of the sudden death of Peter Gutteridge last Sunday, one of New Zealand's most talented guitarists / songwriters, and our thoughts are with his family and friends.
Self-obsessed
While we have been away, the selfie has become the fad du jour. What effect will it have when we re-open?