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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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The Places We Belong To
Cycling into work along Ferry Road each morning I pass one of those new ads perkily announcing that 'The Christchurch We Love is Still Here'. And each morning I imagine getting off the bike and performing a firm correction. Something along the lines of, 'The Christchurch we love is still here, but some very big bits of it are being knocked down.'
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Moving right along
Time keeps on moving right along earthquake or no earthquake, a fact that's reinforced for me by the fading Queensland Search and Rescue team's spray-painted message on the Centre of Contemporary Art's window on Gloucester street.
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This is not a vitrine, this is an ocean
When artist/curator Jim Vivieaere died in Auckland on June 3 this year, he was in the process of completing an exhibition for the Vitrine space at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato.
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Spring fever
She's had a fair old rollicking lately, but there are definite signs out there that Canterbury is turning the corner - in a seasonal sense at least.
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The Bright Stuff
Before the quakes, we thought of our Outer Spaces programme as something extra – a nice complement to all the art going on inside. At present, however, with the building still occupied, the Outer Spaces are our Only Spaces, and any new addition to them counts for a lot more than it might have a year ago.
Collection
Petrus van der Velden The Leuvehaven, Rotterdam
Petrus van der Velden turned to painting full-time in 1867 after six years as a struggling self-employed lithographer. “The first year was the hardest, and at the end I had done a picture; the harbour and the ships”, he later recalled. Exhibited in Rotterdam and then the Antwerp Salon, it sold to “an English gentleman … for 300 guilders [£25]. Quite a fortune!”
(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)
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Stacked
While there's not too much art on the walls at the moment, behind closed doors (arrgh!) there's been plenty of artworks being shifted about for all manner of reasons (repair work, impending nearby demolitions etc.).