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Latest Issue
B.22302 Mar 2026
Contributors
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Strange days for public art in ChCh
These are truly strange days for art in Christchurch, and for public art especially.
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Pressed Letters
Two recent additions to the Gallery's library highlight letterpress printing is alive and well in Australasia.
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This way art (if you can stand the hike)
Robert Smithson's Spiral jetty might be one of the most perverse works of public art ever made.
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4 December 1835: Happy Birthday, Mr Butler
Samuel Butler's 1873 self-portrait is one of a number of works that has been identified as needing conservation repairs – as well as a new photograph.
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Empress Eugénie
The Gallery library has received a new book about the art collection of Empress Eugénie, wife of Emperor Napoléon III.