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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?
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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Matariki
This term, as part of the Gallery's education programme, I have been teaching a lesson based on Juliet Peter's screenprint TV1 1967.
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Birthday feast
Media professionals that we are, when copy dries up, we turn to Wikipedia for inspiration.
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Across the bay
Henri Lebasque's (1865-1937) oil painting Across the bay was one of those landscape paintings in the collection with a title that gave nothing away as to its actual location.
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The Last Great Air Race, London – Christchurch 1953
On the 8th of October 1953 what has been described as the Last Great Air Race got under way when an assortment of both civil and military aircraft departed Heathrow Airport, London to race each other halfway round the world to Christchurch.
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Reconstruction construction
The exhibition opens on Worcester Boulevard on Saturday morning. So our exhibitions team, with assistance from Scenic Solutions, has been hard at work building the display stands over the past few days.
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Quick fire: John Keats
There's no prize on offer for 4/4 in this true or false quiz; just old-fashioned, blissful satisfaction - which, as we all know, can be its own reward...