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Te Ara volume 27 number 2 November 2002

Contents

Editorial / Jane Legget
The tales behind the birds / Brian Gill
The art of matchmaking / Alexa Johnston
Into the void / Susan Brooker & Daniel Smith
The feminisation of museums in Aotearoa New Zealand / Joanna Cobley
The art museum in our age / Maria Brown
The forum and the temple / Mercedes Maroto
Greenwich's The Price of Tea & Te Papa's Virgin in a Condom / Camino
The birth of modern times / Sean Brosnan & Peter Read
Exhibition review: A look into truth's mirror / Linda Tyler
Signs of the times at the Buried Village / Walter King
Recent constitutional changes at Whanganui Regional Museum / David Butts, Sharon Dell & Rangi Wills
New Maori policy initiatives at the Auckland War Memorial Museum / Danny Tumahoi
Aratoi - Masterton's new look museum / Andrew Langridge
Rotorua Museum's glittering prizes / Jane Legget
Book review: The Poetic Museum: Reviving Historic Collections / Louis Le Vaillant
Yes, but what does it mean? / Galvan Macnamara
State of the Art Awards / Tracy Puklowski
Still absent after all these years / Pamela Gerrish Nunn
Virtual collections: museums move online / Erik Kendrick
Pompallier @ Pompallier / Kate Martin
Museum leadership: good management, good judgement / Kerry McCarthy