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!
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Contributors
Listening to the Past
Mark Salvatus on Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan
Seattle • The New Dis-Normal
AWARDS
OBITUARIES
Missing Artworks Raise Accountability Issues at Japanese Museum
RELOOKING FOR RELEVANCE
A Proposed Artist’s Contract for NFTs
Lucrative Collaborations
SUBVERSIVE PLAY
SWAPPING SIDES
SCREENSAVERS FOR THE FUTURE • Virtual Dreams of Revolution
Maximum RPM XPER.XR
Now You See It NABUQI
Hand-Body Connection KANG SEUNG LEE
AN INTERVIEW WITH ZADIE XA
WHAT HISTORY CALLS FOR AN INTERVIEW WITH GALA PORRAS-KIM
SHURUQ HARB
PINAR ÖĞRENCi
LIU YIN
41 Thinker of the Present • The Art of Lee Ufan
THE MESSAGE OF THE NEW CORONAVIRUS • Selected excerpts
ITINERARY
ART DIRECTORY 125 • A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ART SPACES AND GALLERIES IN ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE PACIFIC, AND AROUND THE WORLD.
Something New Must Turn Up: Six Singaporean Artists After 1965 • National Gallery Singapore
Richard Bell You Can Go Now • Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Chung Sang Hwa • National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the World • Mori Art Museum
Cao Yu Passing Through the Human World • Galerie Urs Meile
Zhao Yang Godlike Rage • ShanghArt Gallery
Joebau Throw Hide & Twist • MO_Space
Extended Figure: The Art and Inspiration of Lalan • Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Simon Fujiwara Who the Bær • Fondazione Prada
Bagyi Aung Soe • Centre Pompidou
Yu Ji Wasted Mud • Chisenhale Gallery
An-My Lê đô-mi-nô • Marian Goodman Gallery
Models for the Future
LEELEE CHAN • Alchemical Reactions
TUAN ANDREW NGUYEN