What’s On
Night Market at the Gallery
Wine, beer, food, crafts, jewellery, ceramics, plants, candles, records, books, DJs (not for purchase) and more...
Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa
A major exhibition featuring works that tell stories about personal and collective histories, communication, distance and relationships to our environment.
Don't miss
Our Out of Time exhibition is closing soon.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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A page from Eunuchi by Badius and Trechsel
This article first appeared as 'From scrap to centre stage' in The Press on 8 September 2015.
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Reflections on riches
While the Gallery may be closed, our archive collections continue to develop. As I write, three aspects of managing an archive are happening simultaneously. We are adding new material, cataloguing it, and assisting a researcher to use the archive. All the challenges and pleasures of archive management are on the table.
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Te Wiki o te reo Māori
Curator Nathan Pohio has been asking Māori artists how te reo affects them and their work
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Frontispiece to 'Fables amusantes' by Tobias Miller
This article first appeared in The Press as 'Not so handsome prints with royal stories to tell' on 30 June 2015
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La promenade publique by Philibert-Louis Debucourt
This article first appeared as 'Aristocrats at play' in The Press on 14 April 2015.
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Major Major
The line between the fine and applied arts is, it hardly needs saying, a blurred one
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More PapersPast
Another six years of the Press have been digitised thanks to the National Library and Christchurch City Libraries
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Stuck in enemy territory
One hundred years ago today, The Press carried this amazing story of Mina Arndt and her sister becoming stuck in Germany.
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How close is too close?
We've been trying out some zoomable high resolution images which allow you to see amazing details in works from our collection.