What’s On
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!
Cora-Allan: Encountering Aotearoa
A major body of new work that considers the whenua from the vantage point of the moana.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
Easter Hours
To those visiting or staying in Christchurch this Easter, we'd love to see you at our two offsite exhibition spaces which are both open 10am to 4pm from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
Cathedral Square by Charles Nathaniel Worsley
This article first appeared as 'Fixed in time' in The Press on 17 April 2014
Wish You Were Here
We've had our own crowdfunding success on Boosted in the past, raising money for our Outer Spaces exhibition programme, but now Christchurch-based artist Julia Holden is looking for help to send a supersized version of one of her 'portraits' of post-quake Christchurch to Auckland - and she only has one day left to make the target!
Homage or plagiarism?
A guest blog from Auckland curator and art historian Jane Davidson-Ladd on a discovery that resulted from her research into Louis John Steele.
Toss Woollaston born this day
Sir Toss Woollaston (1910-98) seldom painted urban landscape, and is best known for his characteristically energetic, atmospheric fusion of natural earth, water and sky. Greymouth with Tower is one of a small number of paintings dating from the 1950s painted from the elevated vantage point of his Greymouth home.
Gordon Bryan by Leo Bensemann
This article first appeared as 'Pricking the performer's pompous pose' in The Press on 11 April 2014.
Statute of Anne
On this day in 1710 the Statute of Anne received Royal Assent, establishing many of the principles of copyright that are still with us today.