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