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Renaissance Town
Christchurch seems abuzz with demolition and construction crews working throughout the city at the moment. Over 2000 tons of demolition material is removed from the CBD daily. Just as post-quake Napier is depicted in Roland Hipkins' excellent painting of Napier, Renaissance, Christchurch has become New Zealand's renaissance town.
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Death of a library
The fate of our sister organization, the Central Library, is still far from clear. It sits just within the dreaded cordon, whereas we are lucky enough to be just outside it.
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Post-traumatic sustenance
'I think that art can add to the healing of a city in a post-catastrophe environment...'
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Care Package (Part 2)
So yesterday I wrote how the Christchurch Art Gallery had just received a bodacious post-quake care package, which looks like this.
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Just the sheer pleasure...
...of going in the door and knowing I have an hour or so of pleasure ahead of me.
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B.165 is on its way
It's September, and if you're a subscriber or a Friend of the Gallery you're probably wondering where your copy of Bulletin is... again! But relax, it'll be with you soon.
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Care Package (Part 1)
The earthquakes have triggered a revival of the old-fashioned art of the 'care package'.
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Rattlers
That's the name my son gives to the aftershocks that regularly shake our St Albans home.
