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Briar Williams rounds up the auction scene, and the effects of the weather.
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Around the galleries on opening night.
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a longer look
A sculpture of an upturned house prompts Justin Paton to appreciate the world the right-side up.
opinion
Courtney Johnston on the controversial departures of key women in art museums.
profile
Peter Robinson’s latest exhibition responds to CoCA’s cavernous gallery space. Andrew Paul Wood reports.
profile
Nansi Thompson talks to Veronica Herber about working with tape and time.
profile
Surrounded by unfamiliar beasts and birds, Denis O’Connor returns to clay.
in residence
Deborah Rundle investigates the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci in Rome.
dispatch
Eloise Callister-Baker reports on a new artists’ residency on Great Barrier Island.
features
sculpture in space
When the Humanity Star was launched from Mahia Peninsula, it was seen as both a humanitarian gesture and a commercial stunt. Bruce E Phillips explores the vogue for putting art in space.
style with substance
Alex Plumb is this year’s Auckland Festival of Photography Annual Commission. Kriselle Baker looks at his influences, and the way he captures the strange, the familiar, the lonely and the very camp.
art galleries go digital
The Sarjeant Gallery’s new award-winning Explore the Collection portal
takes an innovative approach to showcasing its collection online. But what, asks Margo White, is the future of the white box, when so much art can be seen online?
the meaning of molecules
The curatorial theme for the 21st Biennale of Sydney drew on quantum mechanics, but what did it mean? Sue Gardiner explains.
hot topic
Jessica Douglas likes sharing and finding out who’s showing what online, but could smartphones be turning art into a destination?
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Veronica Herber, 816×7=5712 Time Fragments, 2017, handtorn Japanese Foto tape on paper, 1040 x 1520mm. Photo: Meek Zuiderwyk. Courtesy of the artist