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Easter Hours
To those visiting or staying in Christchurch this Easter, we'd love to see you at our two offsite exhibition spaces which are both open 10am to 4pm from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
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Wish You Were Here
We've had our own crowdfunding success on Boosted in the past, raising money for our Outer Spaces exhibition programme, but now Christchurch-based artist Julia Holden is looking for help to send a supersized version of one of her 'portraits' of post-quake Christchurch to Auckland - and she only has one day left to make the target!
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Homage or plagiarism?
A guest blog from Auckland curator and art historian Jane Davidson-Ladd on a discovery that resulted from her research into Louis John Steele.
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Gordon Bryan by Leo Bensemann
This article first appeared as 'Pricking the performer's pompous pose' in The Press on 11 April 2014.
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Toss Woollaston born this day
Sir Toss Woollaston (1910-98) seldom painted urban landscape, and is best known for his characteristically energetic, atmospheric fusion of natural earth, water and sky. Greymouth with Tower is one of a small number of paintings dating from the 1950s painted from the elevated vantage point of his Greymouth home.
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Statute of Anne
On this day in 1710 the Statute of Anne received Royal Assent, establishing many of the principles of copyright that are still with us today.
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Making space
Apparently "storeroom" is the magic word that will draw Registrars and Collection Managers like moths to a flame, to use a slightly inappropriate figure of speech. Neither moths nor flames are generally permitted in our storerooms, unless they are of the more symbolic kind.
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Seek Stillness in Movement
If you've forgotten what exactly a 'hectic city-scape' looks like, head down to our space at 209 Tuam Street from this Saturday.
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Sara Hughes in Cathedral Square
Sara Hughes's spectacular flag wall in Cathedral Square was brought to completion this week...