ArtAsiaPacific

For over 20 years, ArtAsiaPacific has been at the forefront of the powerful creative forces that shape contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Covering the latest in contemporary visual culture, ArtAsiaPacific is published in Hong Kong, with over 30 editorial desks worldwide. Our annual issue, the Almanac, is an alphabetical tour d'horizon of the 67-odd countries covered in ArtAsiaPacific, spanning Afghanistan to Vietnam. The Almanac also invites influential art world figures to comment on the major cutural events that have shaped the past 12 months. Now also available on the iPhone!

The Practice of Self

ArtAsiaPacific

Contributors

Bani Abidi on Elia Suleiman

London • Whose city is it?

AWARDS

OBITUARIES

MIT Media Lab Director Resigns Over Epstein Ties

Tipping the Scale • Throughout 2019, The Point explores new models for operating in the art market. For this issue, we asked lawyer Michael McCullough of Pearlstein McCullough & Lederman LLP to elucidate what the United States tariffs on Chinese goods will mean for art businesses.

Business in Conflict

Where Art Thou?

Choppy Waters • New York auction houses appeared unruffled by the United States government’s new round of tariffs on goods originating from China, which took effect after works had been consigned and transported for the auctions in September and October. The annual art sales at Christie’s Shanghai fared well, though auction houses in Hong Kong saw uneven results, possibly due to unfortunate timing as some sales coincided with a weekend of protests and traffic disruptions.

Mid-tones • Fairs from Jakarta to Istanbul soldiered on amid economic and political uncertainties. Despite often-stated ambitions to further their international reach, many fairs in recent months have sought to cement their positions as local players through predictable offerings that appeal to native buyers.

PAST AND FUTURE VISIONS

RECTIFICATION AND HEALING

DOES REVOLUTION STILL RESONATE? • On Jean Genet and Failure

DAVID HUANG • Intrepid Discoverer

EUGENIA LIM • Envoy of the Unspoken

NADIM KARAM • Architect of Stories

Judy Freya Sibayan • Meta Self Inter Textual Parody

BETWEEN THE WAKING LIFE AND THE LUCID DREAM • A CONVERSATION WITH TALA MADANI

FARAH AL-QASIMI

ZICO ALBAIQUNI

LIU CHUANG

Marguerite Humeau: Two-Headed Venus

ART DIRECTORY • A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE PACIFIC, AND AROUND THE WORLD.

Itinerary

16th Istanbul Biennial: “The Seventh Continent”

Soungui Kim Lazy Clouds

The Herstory of Abstraction in East Asia

Poklong Anading and Neil Fettling Normal Scheduling Will Resume Shortly

Mark Bradford Los Angeles

Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa

NS Harsha Gathering Delights

Arin Rungjang They Beat Your Father

Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts: Crack Up – Crack Down

Alia Farid In Lieu of What Was

Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance

Yutaka Matsuzawa

Art Basel Miami Beach

Tracking Transformations

HILMI JOHANDI • Spaces collide in the artist’s Singapore studio

YEE I-LANN • Interweaving Realms