COMMENTARY
Editorial
BY
Robert Leonard
Toi Toi Toi: New Zealand art in Kassel
BY
Louise Garrett
Testing Ground: Artist-run spaces in New Zealand
BY
Stella Brennan
Turandot: Chinoiserie made in China
BY
Francesca Dal Lago
Noumea-Tokyo: The Third Biennale of Contemporary Art
BY
Juile Ewington
Degrees of Separation: A group show in Christchurch
BY
Lara Strongman
Speechless: The 1998 Biennale of Sydney
BY
Hannah Fink
Velvet Dreams: A film by Sima Urale
BY
Lisa Taouma
Process and Politics: The fifth Artists’ Regional Exchange
BY
Lola Lenzi
Misunderstanding Art: ARX5 and cultural sensitivity
BY
Lee Weng Choy
Action Play: An exhibition of 1970s post-object art
BY
Tony Green
ESSAYS
Bill Hammond Paints New Zealand
BY
Allan Smith
The End of Improvement: In defence of Ava Seymour
BY
Robert Leonard
Going East: Post-orientalism in contemporary New Zealand art
BY
Richard Dale
Theo Schoon: Indonesia and the re-fashioning of the self
BY
Damian Skinner
The Indefinite Article: Michael Parekowhai’s riff on representation
BY
Jim and Mary Barr
Peter Robinson, Gordon Walters and the Corporate Koru
BY
Anna Miles
Maori Bay Quarry: Maori prophets in the work of Colin McCahon
BY
Leigh Davis
Locating Shane Cotton
BY
Imants Tillers
ART DIRECTORY
Art Directory: A guide to galleries and museums exhibiting contemporary Asian and Pacific art
REVIEWS
William McAloon on Jim Speers
Wystan Curnow on Max Gimblett
Justin Paton on Ross T. Smith
Kelly Carmichael on Julian Dashper
Megan Dunn and David Townsend on Judy Darragh
Morris O’Riordan on an indigenous Australian-Indian exchange
Wystan Curnow on Leigh Davis