Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
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.
Ana Iti: Ngahere Behind a Pile of Metal
An immersive installation considering the legacies of deforestation and significance of kauri trees.
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Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Uruka utukore, ahokore utukore
Free entry, free wifi
Staithes
Staithes is a village on the North Yorkshire coast, a few miles north of Whitby and surprisingly close to the industrial sprawl of Teesside.
Build it, and they will come
After Feb 2011 we became the shop with no gallery. Now we are the shop with no street. Confused?
Creepy Spidey
On a recent holiday in Sydney I visited the Museum of Contemporary Art. With its stunning location over-looking the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, the sculpture terrace on the top floor is a great place to enjoy a coffee and slice of cake.
Nosferatwho?
For me, the best bits in vintage photographs are often the bits the photographer didn't really mean to capture.
On Being a Curator (1)
'Am I a curator when I go to my wardrobe and select a few clothes for my naked form for a day?' asks Grant Smithies in his tongue-in-cheek column in the Sunday Star Times on 21 October.
Ms Kia Ora
It's not uncommon to be wrongly addressed in one way or another in general Gallery correspondence. We still get letters and circulars addressed to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, which has been closed some ten years or so.
Strange genius... in Palmy
'He might have incarnated from the dark side of the moon', wrote the Irish literary figure George Russell in 1929, 'Harry Clarke is one of the strangest geniuses of his time.' A recent visit to Palmerston North provided vivid evidence of Russell's claim...