Problematic. Controversial. Difficult. Racist. Words even the curators of the first substantial exhibition in decades of the late artist Theo Schoon use to describe his character. So why, in the face of protests, an exhibition now? And what do Maori then and now think of him? We speak to Reuben Friend and Hamish Coney ahead of a weekend of talks at City Gallery Wellington as part of Split Level Viewfinder: Theo Schoon and New Zealand Art.