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Exciting new format for Bulletin

The Bulletin iPad magazine is now available for free download.

Movie Palace Meets Art

The curtain has just come down on the films we've been showing at Alice Cinematheque – only temporarily I'm pleased to say, until next month when our next series of films start.

Holiday reading

Herman Melville's Moby Dick, first published on 14 November 1851, is a whale of a book...

Lakeside

Unsurprisingly, there are some stellar paintings of Canterbury high-country lakes in our collection.

Naughty boys

Visiting places depicted in the works in the Gallery's collection can be very rewarding, but on this occasion the reality thoroughly undid the artist's efforts.

Christchurch Hills

Keep an eye for our latest outerspaces project, Christchurch Hills 2010 - 2012 by Brenda Nightingale.

Uncanny, Canny Scot and Saint

Puerile I know, but I was astounded by the similarity of Leo Bensemann's portrait of St Francis and the Scots actor Alan Cumming.

Sticky Fingers

Take some paper squares, some glue, and sparkly bits, add a child and see the creativity flow.

The new branch of the Louvre opened in December 2012 in the depressed, and I'm sorry to say depressing, former mining town of Lens in northern France. Tate Liverpool, Guggenheim Bilbao, and now Louvre Lens: industrial towns all in chronic decline given new life by art.

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A Canterbury Landscape

The Gallery recently received a stunning painting by Archibald Nicoll which was bequeathed by Osborne Alfred (Alf) Taylor late last year.