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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
The Pruitt-Igoe social housing development in St Louis, Missouri is often held up – or beaten down – as the case of modernist social housing gone bad.
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Gallery Guides leading Brian Brake tours
A short walk along the boulevard from the Gallery, Canterbury Museum has reopened its doors to the public. One of the opening exhibitions is Brian Brake: Lens on the world developed and toured by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and presented in partnership with Christchurch Art Gallery.
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Ode to Shag Rock / Rapanui
We had followed its progress. Reduced to easily half its size after February 22, Shag Rock was made Shagpile as well as something ruder.
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Care Package (Part 3)
And so now that you've heard the story of the mystery black box that turned up on our doorstep, and the big blow-up bunny inside it, and the fact Jim Barr and Mary Barr have given it to the Gallery to put some bounce in our eventual re-opening celebrations, it's time something else got mentioned.
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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.