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Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
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Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Yoshitora Utagawa Yoritomo's Hunting Party on the Plain of Mount Fuji
Best-known for his Yokohama-e (woodblock prints depicting Westerners in Japan in the post-1868 Meiji era), Yoshitora Utagawa was an inventive and prolific printmaker. This work memorialises founding shogunate ruler Minamoto no Yoritomo, who is shown with his attendants at the base of Mount Fuji in 1193. At centre, the samurai warrior Tadatsune slays a giant boar.
(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)
Notes
The regeneration must not be bureaucratised
Aaron Kreisler is Head of the School of Fine Art at the University of Canterbury. He talked to Bulletin about challenges and opportunities for the arts in our city and what art can contribute to the future of Christchurch.
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What sort of city do we want our children's children to live in?
Martin Trusttum, project manager for Ōtākaro Art by the River, and founder of temporary gallery space ArtBox, writes on the role of art in Christchurch.