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On Being a Curator (1)
'Am I a curator when I go to my wardrobe and select a few clothes for my naked form for a day?' asks Grant Smithies in his tongue-in-cheek column in the Sunday Star Times on 21 October.
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Ms Kia Ora
It's not uncommon to be wrongly addressed in one way or another in general Gallery correspondence. We still get letters and circulars addressed to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, which has been closed some ten years or so.
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Strange genius... in Palmy
'He might have incarnated from the dark side of the moon', wrote the Irish literary figure George Russell in 1929, 'Harry Clarke is one of the strangest geniuses of his time.' A recent visit to Palmerston North provided vivid evidence of Russell's claim...
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Unruly, unexpected and oblique images
Combining unexpected detours, unruly surfaces and oblique viewpoints, the artists in Keep left, keep right invite viewers to slow down and take notice of the city that surrounds them.
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Florence Akins 1906 - 2012
Florence Akins, an artist with a very long association with Canterbury art, passed away peacefully on 18 October, aged 106.
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Light bulb moment
I thought nothing would beat the practicallty of the rubber vases, I was wrong...
Coming very soon and exclusive in NZ to the gallery shop the simple and yet brilliantly conceived LED Magic Bulb. Can be used as an emergency light during power failures and turns into a torch. Screw and bayonet fitting, 6 watt.
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thirst quenchers
We enjoy the odd bottle of craft beer here at the Christchurch Art Gallery, especially when the labels have been created by our own staff.
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Putting the temporary back into contemporary art
When we started working with Tjalling de Vries on his super-sized wall collage Tjalling is Innocent, we knew it wouldn't last forever...