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What’s On
Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
A rare opportunity to view the work of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most adventurous and experimental modernist artists.
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
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Notes
On First Installing Chapman's Homer
If you've been down Madras Street recently you might well have seen something unusual on the vacant lot outside NG
Notes
Quack doctor?
Gerrit Dou's The Physician is one of the most treasured works in the Gallery collection. An assault upon the good doctor's reputation was not expected.
Collection
et al. that's obvious! that's right! that's true!
This multi-part work can be displayed in a variety of ways. These photographs show a part of the work as exhibited in the exhibition "that's obvious! that's right! that's true!" (24 July - 29 November 2009)
Exhibition
Stereoscope #1: Jason Greig
Jason Greig's two larger-than-life oval portraits are drawn from the key characters, Jekyll and Hyde in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel of 1886, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Notes
Matariki
This term, as part of the Gallery's education programme, I have been teaching a lesson based on Juliet Peter's screenprint TV1 1967.
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Birthday feast
Media professionals that we are, when copy dries up, we turn to Wikipedia for inspiration.
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Across the bay
Henri Lebasque's (1865-1937) oil painting Across the bay was one of those landscape paintings in the collection with a title that gave nothing away as to its actual location.