Event Highlights: 20 August – 2 September
Welcome to the Christchurch Art Gallery eNewsletter. This fortnight, the Gallery are offering a great range of events, including ‘Revealing Mr Webb’ – come along next Wednesday evening and discover the secrets embedded in an eighteenth-century portrait. Also, why not pay a visit to the Gallery in the coming weeks to view Sara Hughes’s dazzling new artwork up and around the main stairway of the foyer.
6pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, free
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Wed 20 August
Join Anthony Wright, Canterbury Museum director and chair of Christchurch’s Public Art Advisory Group, as he leads panelists Gallery director Jenny Harper, architect Ian Athfield, urban designer Hugh Nicholson and sculptor Phil Price in a discussion contemplating possible futures for Christchurch’s art in public spaces. |
Ann Veronica Janssens, Bikes London, 2007. Photo: Guillaume Bleret. |
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Wed 27 August
Assistant curator Ken Hall and oil painting conservator Edward Sakowski uncover the original appearance of an important portrait of Nathaniel Webb by Sir Godfrey Kneller from around 1710-20.
Featuring time-lapse animation of the conservation process, and revealing stories attached to this impressive gentleman’s portrait. |
Sir Godfrey Kneller Nathaniel Webb of Roundhill Grange, Charlton Musgrove, Somerset (detail) c.1710-20. Oil on canvas. Gifted by Sally Fox in memory of the Cuddon Family, 2007. |
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Wed 20 August
10.30am, Friends $2, public $5, students with ID free
Mara Miller is professor of Japanese and East Asian art history at the University of Oregon, and has a PhD in Philosophy: Gardens as Works of Art from Yale University. |
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Sun 24 August
2pm, 80 mins, G rated, free
These silent comedy classics (1920–22) feature the former child vaudeville star Buster Keaton, who became a star of the silent movie era.
Film generously provided by Alice in Videoland.
Daniel Crooks, Train No.1 still, 2002-8. DV/DVD. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery. |
Sat 30 August
8.30am, Alchemy, Friends $20, public $30
Senior curator Justin Paton looks at Daniel Crooks's extraordinary visions of modern urban life.
Sun 31 August
2pm, 122 mins, PG rated, free
Perhaps the funniest American film of the 1950s, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
Film generously provided by Alice in Videoland. |
Michel Tuffery Kowhai Fa'i Fatty 2008 |
Fri 29 August
7pm, $50
Join the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery for their major fundraising occasion of the year, The Art Event.
During the evening there will be an opportunity to buy works by a range of leading Christchurch and New Zealand artists through ballot selection. This will be followed by an auction of larger works by Euan MacLeod, Tony de Lautour, Doc Ross, Simon Edwards and Grahame Sydney.
Tickets includes wine and cocktail food and can be purchased from the Christchurch Art Gallery information desk or through the Friends of the Christchurch Art Gallery, tel. (03) 941 7356, or email friends@ccc.govt.nz.
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