Stuck in enemy territory

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.

Swell

Swell

Here's a book that needs a video to explain it.

E Waru Reo Ki Kawatea

E Waru Reo Ki Kawatea

I first encountered Wellington based musician, composer, and producer Alistair Fraser via The Woolshed Sessions, a project he was involved with five or six years ago.

White Water Falls

White Water Falls

English artist Richard Long's White Water Falls (2012) in Sydney is really worth a look. It's a fantastic surprise in the stairwell atrium of the Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Darlinghurst (370 Victoria Street). It's not a place we'd normally go to view art, but totally rewarding - I was so pleased to be told about it when I was close by!

Return of the Hand

Return of the Hand

Passing by the desk of Gallery educator Bianca van Leeuwen last week, I was intrigued by an arrangement of plaster hands being prepared for an outreach classroom activity about composition and colour.

Pacific Flotsam

Pacific Flotsam

I was delighted to be asked by Judith Blackall, curator at Sydney's National Art School Gallery to speak at the opening of their new Bill Culbert exhibition earlier this month. We had lent our floor sculpture Pacific Flotsam and it features here on the poster. 

Zoology

Zoology

I'm pretty sure the kids at my daughters pre-school haven't seen Cai Guo-Qiang's Heritage, which was commissioned for his show Falling Back To Earth at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane last year.

Painting on the wall

Painting on the wall

Between the late 1940s and 1960s there was a significant number of new murals, both painted and sculpted, created to adorn buildings in Christchurch.

How close is too close?

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.

Four years ago

Four years ago

Four years ago today, disgruntled stallholder Mohamed Bouazizi's immolation sparked revolution in Tunisia, leading directly to revolutions in other Arab countries.

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