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Art News and the Gallery

Behind the scenes

The new issue of Art News New Zealand is out now, and features a run down of the state of the arts in post-quake Christchurch.

Neil Dawson Chalice 2001. Steel, aluminium sheet, with ChristChurch Cathedral in the background

Neil Dawson Chalice 2001. Steel, aluminium sheet, with ChristChurch Cathedral in the background

Editor Virginia Were talks to artists, dealers, writers and curators affected by the February earthquake, including the Gallery's senior curator Justin Paton and a number of artists represented in the Gallery's collection. On the cover is a striking photograph of Neil Dawson's Chalice in front of a shatterd and heavily scaffolded ChristChurch Cathedral – taken by the Gallery's photographer John Collie, it's a great cover for a really good read.