Features in the Spring ’09 issue of Art News New Zealand include Virginia Were on Yayoi Kuasama, Sue Gardiner speaking to the new generation of curators redefining the art of exhibition making, Virginia Were on suburban photography and Paul Judge discussing his passion for the work of Don Driver and how it has inspired a documentary film; we visit Julian Hooper as he revels in Tokyo’s street life; a studio visit with Mark Braunias; Josie McNaught muses on media jitters; dispatches from Matthew Collings in London, Graham Reid in Venice and Tim Wraight in the Swiss Alps; a profile of Fiona Connor; and Heather Straka ventures from Switzerland to China. In columns, John Perry anticipates a strong auction season, and reviewers report from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Bilbao