Summer 2016 | Art News New Zealand

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News from the art front.

Artists on a winning streak.

From Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin.

John Perry reports there has been some serious moving and shaking in the Auckland art auction scene recently.

Events and exhibitions to look forward to.

Your comprehensive guide to gallery exhibitions and art events.

Judy Millar wonders why we don’t value our architectural heritage more.

Courtney Johnston watches as big corporates co-opt the museum brand.

Megan Dunn talks to Kushana Bush about divine influence and a certain nun.

Richard Lewer reveals his own and others’ vulnerability, reports Lisa Slade.

Balamohan Shingade considers art and capital in China and South Korea.

Peter Waddell scrutinises Washington DC’s fascinating architecture and history.

Scott Eady on his Martin Tate Wallace Arts Trust Residency in Vladivostok.

Around the galleries.

Martin Patrick considers the recent works of Cindy Sherman, who has been reinventing the way we understand photographic practice since the 1970s.

Women artists riding the fourth wave of feminism talk to Megan Dunn about the body, the Internet and building swimming pools.

Jessica Douglas introduces the overlooked female artist, Anne McCahon (née Hamblett), who was a leading New Zealand modernist.

Linda Tyler reflects on the colourful history of the influential Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, which is now celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Public sculpture in Auckland is humming with the addition of several new commissions, including a light work by Leo Villareal. Virginia Were reports.

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