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Christchurch Art Gallery takes to the street

Making a virtue out of adversity.

By Hamish Keith In Cultural Curmudgeon

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7th July, 2012
When the definitive history of the Christchurch earthquakes is written, Christchurch Art Gallery will have certainly earned a place in it as one of the city’s most sustaining institutions. That despite the gallery being closed to its public since February last year. When the gallery was hit by the second and major quake, it was on a wave. The city’s post-September-quake appetite for culture, and the Ron Mueck exhibition, had given the gallery record attendances. In the previous year, crowds close to double the city’s population had visited. From February, art lovers were replaced with ...

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