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What's the difference between a piano and an onion?

What's the difference between a piano and an onion?

Answer: No one cries when you chop up a piano.

Apparently that's only the third worst piano joke of all time...

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Heavy Metal #3

Heavy Metal #3

Check out this amazing Columbian printing press that was recently discovered in an English garden.

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Homer>Chapman> Keats>Parekowhai

Homer>Chapman> Keats>Parekowhai

For the record, here is the text of the poem by John Keats (1795-1821), written in 1816, entitled On first looking into Chapman's Homer.

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Independence day

Independence day

Just another day here in New Zealand, but the number one holiday in the United States.

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Collection online

Collection online

The last few works from our collection were recently added to the website

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Fernbank Studio

Fernbank Studio

While currently curating an exhibition titled Pressed Letters: Fine Printing in New Zealand since 1975, which examines not only beautifully designed hand-printed books but also the collaborative nature that often exists between poets, artists and letterpress printers, I was...

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Collecta-bull

Collecta-bull

As you may have noticed, we're going a little bit bull-crazy round here.

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Enlightenment

Enlightenment

Recent research has illuminated a fragment of medieval manuscript

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On First Installing Chapman's Homer

On First Installing Chapman's Homer

If you've been down Madras Street recently you might well have seen something unusual on the vacant lot outside NG

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Quack doctor?

Quack doctor?

Gerrit Dou's The Physician is one of the most treasured works in the Gallery collection. An assault upon the good doctor's reputation was not expected.

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