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Birthday feast
Media professionals that we are, when copy dries up, we turn to Wikipedia for inspiration.
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Across the bay
Henri Lebasque's (1865-1937) oil painting Across the bay was one of those landscape paintings in the collection with a title that gave nothing away as to its actual location.
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The Last Great Air Race, London – Christchurch 1953
On the 8th of October 1953 what has been described as the Last Great Air Race got under way when an assortment of both civil and military aircraft departed Heathrow Airport, London to race each other halfway round the world to Christchurch.
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Reconstruction construction
The exhibition opens on Worcester Boulevard on Saturday morning. So our exhibitions team, with assistance from Scenic Solutions, has been hard at work building the display stands over the past few days.
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Quick fire: John Keats
There's no prize on offer for 4/4 in this true or false quiz; just old-fashioned, blissful satisfaction - which, as we all know, can be its own reward...
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A big hand (or five, in fact) for Simon
We were delighted to hear that Simon Denny has won the 14th Baloise Art Prize at Art 43 Basel.
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Christchurch 1850
A carefully drawn plan on a sheet of paper: it's interesting to reflect that most cities didn't exist in this form before a single street had been formed, or hardly a building raised.
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Twist, twist again, bust!
On Friday 8 June I attended the reopening of the Canterbury Club, just down Worcester Boulevard from us.
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Wainui, Akaroa by Rita Angus
This article first appeared as 'On view' in The Press on 15 June 2012.