{"id":624755,"date":"2026-10-08T22:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624755\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:08:13","slug":"after-two-years-and-12-3-million-wellingtons-city-gallery-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624755\/","title":{"rendered":"After two years and $12.3 million, Wellington&#8217;s City Gallery is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Davy doesn\u2019t think the public will notice dramatic changes, though they\u2019ve \u201ctried, in the choices that we\u2019ve made, to increase our flexibility so that we\u2019re staying with what art is doing and can continue to show all types of art in the best possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During its closure the gallery partnered with other institutions, such as the Dowse Art Museum, the Museum of New Zealand\u00a0Te Papa\u00a0Tongarewa, and the National Library. Davy says its future is in building those partnerships, platforming M\u0101ori and indigenous art with a dedicated programme, and fostering and celebrating women artists. A new neon sculpture by Auckland artist Sean Keer has been commissioned for the gallery\u2019s previously unused sculpture terrace for next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s that beautiful reminder that out of periods of unsettledness or destruction, beauty and positivity can come,\u201d Davy says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davy doesn\u2019t think the public will notice dramatic changes, though they\u2019ve \u201ctried, in the choices that we\u2019ve made,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-624755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}