Galleries, Museums


Museums & Art Galleries

ArtBeatmonthly newspaper featuring news, reviews and exhibitions in Ōtautahi Christchurch
Christchurch Art GalleryMontreal Street, Central City
Jonathan Smart Gallery, 52 Buchan St, Sydenham
The Central Art GalleyThe Arts Centre 2 Worcester Boulevard
School of Fine Arts (SoFA Gallery), off Fine Arts Lane, off Arts Road, off Clyde Road, Ilam
City Art Depot Gallery, 96 Disraeli St, Sydenham
City Art Reader
PG Gallery 192, 192 Bealey Ave
Chambers 241, 80 Durham St South
North Projects, 201b Bealey Ave, off Manchester
The Physics RoomThe Arts Centre 2 Worcester Boulevard
The National 249 Moorhouse Ave
Form Gallery 468 Colombo St, Sydenham


Area 5 Contexts & Artists:

POLLOCK
Museum of Modern Art via google search - links to text, audio & video
Guggenheim google search for Pollock
Metropolitan Museum of Art google search for Pollock
Tate Museums google search for Pollock
The Mural he paints in the film 'Pollock' for Peggy Guggenheim's house was later gifted to the University of Iowa (?!) Some information about it is here.
The Pollock collection at the Art Institute of Chicago is here
This link to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation is to the 'house' where he made his later work 
WARHOL 
Museum of Modern Art via google search - links to text, audio & video
The Warhol Museum
The Andy Warhol Foundation 



Area 6 Contexts & Artists:

JEFF KOONS
The largest retrospective of Jeff Koons' work ever at Whitney Museum
The Musuem of Contemporary Art Chicago discusses Jeff Koons
The Guardian suggests that Koons is not just the king of kitsch?


DAMIEN HIRST
Navillus Gallery site with good images and text
In the Guardian the artist Grayson Perry talks about his feeling that the most interesting thing about Damien Hirst is his bank account?!
Flux magazine asks if Damien Hirst is just lazy?
An article from Tate Galleries discusses Hirst's Skull (For the Love of God)
Damien Hirst's own website


Walter Benjamin memorial

Google Art Project

American Art Timeline

Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA
Moma Video is their YouTube channel; heaps of video content on Art & Artists

Tate Museums, Great Britain

Tate Channel is the museum's Audio & Video Content section
They have heaps of interviews and information on Art & Artists

The J. Paul Getty Museum


The Getty contains a great collection
This is the Getty Channel on YouTube

The Metropolitan Museum of Art


'The Met' is home to an enormous collection of Art and Objects
This is Met Channel on YouTube

Saatchi Gallery

Charles Saatchi is one of the world's biggest art collector, he is totally dedicated to collecting art on the cutting edge and this is his gallery - check out the book in our art department library "My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic"
Their YouTube Channel is here