Sue Gardiner on public art, Hamish Coney on new acquisitions to the Auckland Art Gallery collections and profiles of Alex Monteith and Robert Hood. We visit the studio of John McLean, Nic Moon during her William Hodges Fellowship, and take a closer look at Cornelia Parker’s Auckland exhibition and Zheng Bo’s Karibu Islands project. Dispatches come from Scott Gardiner in Sri Lanka and Jim Cooper in Taiwan, while columnist Josie McNaught weighs in on A-list artworld scavengers while Darren Glass goes fishing, Matthew Collings considers filming the Renaissance and John Perry detects a lift in the market. Reviews come from Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and New York