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News from the art front.
awards and residencies
Artists on a winning streak.
postcards
From Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin.
auction scene
John Perry reports on some interesting developments over Winter.
upcoming
Events and exhibitions to look forward to.
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what’s on
Your comprehensive guide to gallery exhibitions and art events.
faces
Judy Millar muses on the importance of place within a globalised art world.
profile
Why Susan Te Kahurangi King is New Zealand’s latest overseas art sensation.
profile
Dieneke Jansen looks at large-scale housing projects with new eyes.
profile
Ewan McDougall’s paintings capture the joys and tragedies of human existence.
dispatch
Elizabeth Ellis travels to Europe with Gottfried Lindauer’s Maori Portraits.
dispatch
Josie McNaught checks out art and architecture in Tokyo and beyond.
making it
Creating an art book for a smartphone was a new challenge for Kriselle Baker.
opening shots
Around the galleries.
features
walters prize 2016
Virginia Were is immersed in the four outstanding photo and time-based media works chosen for New Zealand’s most prestigious art award.
ART AT THE DAWN OF THE POST-HUMAN ERA
Simon Ingram, Elena Knox and Stelarc are three artists exploring the rapidly changing field of emergent technologies. Julian McKinnon interviews them about their groundbreaking work.
The search for imagined relations
English artist John Akomfrah’s dense, panoramic video Vertigo Sea was shown at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Andrew Paul Wood talks to Akomfrah about the work’s recent showing in Christchurch.
CHANGING THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Anthony Byrt’s new book about contemporary New Zealand art is a compelling hybrid of journalism, art criticism and travel writing. Julian McKinnon finds out what inspired this highly original text.
TIM AND SHERRAH: A LOVE STORY
Jill Trevelyan tells the story of two much-loved collectors who championed key New Zealand artists and gallerists at a time when the New Zealand art scene was in its fledgling stages.
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Yvonne Todd, Amateur Theatre, 2016, c-type print, 120 x 95.3cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP. From Barnacles series commissioned by Tauranga Art Gallery. Courtesy of the artist.