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!
Ways of Marking Time
Contributors
One on One Slavs and Tatars on Johann Georg Hamann • Gaslighting the enlightenment
Dispatch Pyongyang • Ripples in a sea of uniformity
Awards
Obituaries
Yuz and LACMA form Historic Partnership • The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Shanghai’s Yuz Museum recently announced their collaboration in developing programming, as well as a foundation that is yet to be named.
The Alternatives
Sweet and Lows
Where Art Thou?
A Roaring Start
Cautious Optimism
One and Many
I, you, us • Situating positions of identity in the works of three artists
Remember Me • The ongoing protests in the works of feminist activist-artist Yoshiko Shimada
Culture Vultures
Specters and Spaces
Fighting Man
HON CHI FUN FULL CIRCLE
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YOUNG & EMERGING • ALTERNATIVE NEO-SPIRITUALITIES
THEN AND NOW • A look back through our magazine’s archives, from 1993 to 2017
BLOOMING MAVERICKS IN A WORLD OF GIANTS • MARIA BERNHEIM ON THE FINE LINE YOUNG GALLERIES WALK
21ST BIENNALE OF SYDNEY • SUPERPOSITION: EQUILIBRIUM AND ENGAGEMENT
LOIS CONNER • A LONG VIEW
MANILA BIENNALE • OPEN CITY
LIU WEI • SHADOWS
A BEAST, A GOD, AND A LINE
RADEN SALEH AND JUAN LUNA • BETWEEN WORLDS
MONA SAUDI • POETRY AND FORM
NAEEM MOHAIEMEN • TWO MEETINGS AND A FUNERAL
ALI MAHMUT DEMIREL • ISLE
ZHANG DA LI • META-MORPHOSIS
CHIKAKO YAMASHIRO • SHAPESHIFTER
DANH VŌ • TAKE MY BREATH AWAY
YOKO ONO • THE RIVERBED
JASPER JOHNS • SOMETHING RESEMBLING TRUTH
Art in Crisis • Digitalization, financialization and planetary civil war
ART DIRECTORY 108 • A comprehensive guide to the contemporary arts in Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific and around the world.
Rina Banerjee • In an artist’s Manhattan studio, we find bodies that like to move
Patricia Perez Eustaquio • In our next issue, we look at how the Manila-based artist’s multimedia practice reconfigures history in abstract swathes of paint and fabric