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Snowgnome
With the Gallery closed, and the staff all at home, what else could security guard Richard Jeffs do with his day...
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Collecting Cards
That the latest set of collectable cards in boxes of Weetbix features the All Blacks isn't really surprising, given that the Rugby World Cup is about to kick off on our shores and Weetbix are the official breakfast sponsors of the All Blacks.
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Ferne Every R.I.P.
Gallery staff were saddened to hear the news that Ferne Every, one of the Gallery's favourite supporters, had passed away on Monday.
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What to call your gallery
Are art dealers egomaniacs, or can they just not lay their hands on a decent dictionary?
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The Places We Belong To
Cycling into work along Ferry Road each morning I pass one of those new ads perkily announcing that 'The Christchurch We Love is Still Here'. And each morning I imagine getting off the bike and performing a firm correction. Something along the lines of, 'The Christchurch we love is still here, but some very big bits of it are being knocked down.'
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Moving right along
Time keeps on moving right along earthquake or no earthquake, a fact that's reinforced for me by the fading Queensland Search and Rescue team's spray-painted message on the Centre of Contemporary Art's window on Gloucester street.
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This is not a vitrine, this is an ocean
When artist/curator Jim Vivieaere died in Auckland on June 3 this year, he was in the process of completing an exhibition for the Vitrine space at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato.
