and RICHARD STRATTON meanders across Europe; Sue Gardiner on the artists who are revisiting gestural abstraction; Linda Tyler speaks to some of benefactors amid changes to arts funding in New Zealand; JUDY MILLAR explores the way pop celebrities are moving into the art world; Josie McNaught is dismayed at the decision to close Te Papa Press and John Perry runs his eye over the first round of major auctions for 2015. Our reviewers report back from Auckland, Hastings, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Sydney and Bondi