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John Perry reports on the ‘gilt complex’ afflicting recent sales.
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faces
As the robots come to take our jobs, Judy Millar considers the role of creativity.
opinion
Courtney Johnston sees a symbolic resistance occurring in the United States.
profile
Lily Hacking surveys the reconstructed forms of clay-artist Richard Stratton.
profile
Andrew Paul Wood talks to Hannah Beehre about the vast and the small.
flying visit
Parisian art star Jennifer Flay caught up with Linda Tyler on a recent visit home.
dispatch
Ioana Gordon-Smith flies across the moana to the Honolulu Biennial.
dispatch
Barbara Cope reports from a trip to Seoul and Gangneung: contemporary art in an ancient landscape.
hot topic
Art by women is still not counting for enough, says Jessica Douglas.
opening shots
Around the galleries.
features
painters on painting
Vital, evergreen, coveted and in constant critical renewal, says Julian McKinnon about painting today. He speaks to James Cousins, Sara Hughes, Robbie Fraser and Séraphine Pick in this exploration.
within the ballenesque
The dark and unsettling photographs of Roger Ballen are on show in New Zealand for the first time. Curator Colin Rhodes introduces an artist whose confronting works lay bare that which was previously hidden.
struggle without an end
Tendai John Mutambu explores the varied practices of three postcolonial artists – Cameron Rowland from the United States, Daniel Boyd in Australia and Ngahuia Harrison here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
jewellery artists shine at schmuck
Munich Jewellery Week is a hectic whirl of exhibitions, networking and creative exchange, with the Schmuck show taking centre stage. Philip Clarke reports on the excellent reputation New Zealand artists have carved out and how our four selected makers fared this year.
raised with art
While artist-parents do much to shape the future worldview of their children, Sue Gardiner visits a number of artistic families and finds that the currents of influence don’t simply flow in one direction.
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Cover: Richard Stratton, Appendage Unknown, 2016, high-fired agate and stoneware thrown and hand-built with engobes and etched glaze, 315 x 200 x 160mm. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Miles Gallery