Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
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
Gazumped
'Art today longs to be topical, outward-looking, connected, responsive to site and situation. And it spends a lot of time fretting that it isn't. But an event like the earthquake short-circuits this logic horribly.'
Collection
Peter Peryer Cass
Rita Angus’s painting ‘Cass’ has become one of New Zealand’s most iconic paintings. Here, Peter Peryer brings the subject firmly into the present with a contemporary photograph of the small railway shed at Cass. Like other contemporary artists who have visited Cass, Peryer does not set out to create a photographic documentary record of an unknown landscape, rather he consciously visits a landscape that has been made famous by art. Interestingly the Cass railway shed was painted white during the 1980s. In the late 1990s it was repainted its original red in a deliberate reference to Angus’s famous painting – a clear case of life imitating art. (Brought to light, November 2009)
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Venice Biennale
It's taken me a while to write about Venice, but the show's still on and the first week of the 2011 Biennale in this memorable and surprising city still fresh in my mind. I was New Zealand's commissioner again and it was a proud moment for us all as visitors poured in – and stayed to listen to the continuous concert – during the Vernissage (the opening few days, in 2011 from 30 May-3 June) of the longest-standing and most prestigious international art exhibition.
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The Magic of Printmaking
In these interesting times, Gallery staff are finding themselves turning their hand to a variety of tasks, sometimes a far call from their usual responsibilities when the Gallery is open to the public.
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Some of our birds are missing!
We ordered a selection of toy singing birds for our shop. But they didn't appear...
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Inside the phantom abbatoir
If I had to recommend one book to a course in curatorial studies it would be Victoria Newhouse's amazing study Art and the Power of Placement.
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Uttër Drech at Christchurch Art Gallery
Bunker Notes Newsdesk, 25 August 2011: The biggest public art event in the country has been happening for months in Christchurch Art Gallery without anyone realising, organisers claimed today.
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A damn close run thing...
...as the Duke of Wellington supposedly said about Waterloo. Exhibition openings are always close run things with finishing touches being applied to labels and displays and fittings and lights right up to the moment the public are admitted.
