Redevelopment plans for the ailing museum on Rolleston Ave would see a soaring blue whale skeleton and two whare in a dramatic new welcome space. The plan includes demolishing large parts of the museum that were built between the 1950s and the 1990s. The 19th century heritage buildings will be retained and restored, along with part of the 1970s wing overlooking the Botanic Gardens and part of the 1950s building on Rolleston Ave.
John Kirk-Anderson/Stuff Canterbury Museum director Anthony Wright said the plans were critical to the museum’s future. “Our 20th century buildings have not been fit for purpose for decades and are currently damaging the collection they are meant to protect,’’ he said.
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Graham Bennett, Disrupt, 2021, 33 machine-shaped wooden axes, pine and native timbers. Photograph by Johannes van Kan. Collection of the Canterbury Museum.
In July’s listing of the best exhibitions in Canterbury,
Warren Feeney recommends Graham Bennett’s
AXIS + AXES as a must-see treasure, discovers that a catastrophe is more than an act of nature or God’s choosing, and that after a ten-year absence, senior painter and printmaker Stanley Palmer has returned to exhibit at the Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora.
1. Graham Bennett,
AXIS + AXES, Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Ave:
AXIS + AXES is a survey exhibition of sculptor/printmaker Graham Bennett’s arts practice, revealing unseen studio works completed and in progress. With Bennett’s access to the Museum’s Pacific collection and its influence on his work, the exhibition also features ceremonial paddles, clubs and adzes, their presence persuasive and confronting, heightening awareness of
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The Government announced in March it was extending the bright-line test, reducing tax deductions on property investments, and would step up investment in communal infrastructure to support housing developments.
Less than half of the Government’s ‘’shovel-ready’’ infrastructure projects have begun by its first self-imposed deadline, with just 44 per cent of the 150 projects under construction by the end of February. Last year, the Government announced it would fund 150 ‘’shovel-ready’’ projects, costing $2.6 billion. The projects, including the Naenae pool development, the Eastern Bays Shared Path, and the Wellington District Court, were meant to kick-start the economy with an infrastructure boom as the country recovered from Covid-19.
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Christchurch youth worker Silivelio Fasi is the artist behind a painting that came to represent the Kiwi response to the mosque attack.
After the March 15 mosque attack, Christchurch youth worker Silivelio Fasi wanted to create an artwork that would honour the 51 people who lost their lives. So he picked up two doors that had been dumped at the side of the road and took them into his garage for a couple of hours. The artwork he created, which featured a woman wearing the New Zealand flag as a hijab, became an emblem of the Kiwi response to the attack. It was featured on the front page of