So much of art is about surfaces and appearances. And yet with these visual cues, we are drawn deeper into other worlds and stories. For our cover feature on Pacita Abad, the late itinerant artist from the ... Read more →

Are there alternatives to fighting power with power? The simultaneously whimsical and disturbing images of our cover artist, Thao Nguyen Phan, suggest that there are. While Phan’s multimedia projects revisit dark chapters in Vietnam’s history—such as the ... Read more →

Upcycling is not just an environmental practice. Artist Yuki Kihara also applies the term to her treatment of post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin’s exoticizing depictions of Pacific islands communities. In “Paradise Camp,” the New Zealand Pavilion at ... Read more →

The simple but universally understood activity of hanging out propelled the establishment and practices of many of Indonesia’s collectives in the 2000s, after the fall of the Suharto regime. Among the groups born of this era ... Read more →

Nowadays, most of us watch the world change through a screen. This was the case for multimedia artist Simon Fujiwara, who observed the torrent of images on social media as the pandemic and social movements revealed societal ... Read more →

The second year of the pandemic saw the continuation of speculative discussions on the post-pandemic era, with many imagining what it might be like. Some are eager to emerge from Covid-19 and return to what was ... Read more →

In ArtAsiaPacific's November/December issue, we look at artists who have devoted their practices to creating space for reflection, reconnection, and healing. Our cover feature is a conversation between Tuan Andrew Nguyen and associate editor Ophelia Lai about the role of voice and song in the Ho Chi ... Read more →

How can we communicate, and commune, with our ancestors whose lives and cultures are long lost to time and geography? And what can we learn from the way they survived, and thrived, as communities? At a ... Read more →

Whether adopting pseudonyms, exaggerating personas, or inventing alter egos, artists have been leading imagined existences throughout time in order to examine the fine lines that divide fiction and reality. There are many para-fictional approaches to art-making ... Read more →

Photography is often described as a passive media—a recording of things that happen before the lens. But for many contemporary artists and photojournalists, it is a field of active investigation and exploration. ArtAsiaPacific’s May/June issue spotlights ... Read more →

It feels like it was both a century ago and just yesterday when news of a mysterious coronavirus first started to spread across the globe. In warping our experiences of time, the pandemic has drawn attention ... Read more →

Covid-19 compelled all of us to dramatically adjust our daily lives in 2020—from washing our hands frequently to social distancing and working or learning from home. In the art world, the pandemic closed museums and galleries, ... Read more →

Recognizing our interdependence with the earth and its diverse organisms is becoming critical as the planet’s ice caps melt at alarming rates, wildfires ravage the land, and droughts and floods threaten the food security of millions. ... Read more →

The pandemic-plagued world is ripe with divisions. As communities around the world look to address both immediate and longstanding problems, artists have the ability to create spaces of understanding, empathy, and awareness. ArtAsiaPacific’s September/October cover Feature, by ... Read more →

In this era of social distancing, being away from the maddening throngs of society has been necessary. As time slowed down and activities came to a halt, there has been a chance for reflection on the ... Read more →

Covid-19 is radically upending how we live, think, and see. The pandemic has forced us to acknowledge aspects of the world’s existing social, economic, scientific, and cultural systems that we often overlook—from how we ship masks ... Read more →

With governments across Asia imposing quarantines and travel restrictions to contain the spread of Covid-19, and art organizations canceling and postponing events in line with the mandates of health authorities, the questions of how else we ... Read more →

Now in its 15th edition, ArtAsiaPacific’s Almanac tracks the diverse cultural landscape from Asia and the Pacific to the Middle East. Every year, our editors and contributors swap notes on what has happened over the course ... Read more →

How does an artist’s life shape their artwork? In the Features of ArtAsiaPacific's November/December issue, we look at two different artists—from disparate generations and geographies—whose practices draw from their own lives in unique ways.  For our cover Feature, Danielle Shang visited ... Read more →

In the mountains of Lebanon, strands of old cassette tape are draped over trees to ward off birds. Turner Prize nominee Lawrence Abu Hamdan salvaged one of these coils, discovering a recording of an Islamic scholar ... Read more →

After signing off on the July/August issue of ArtAsiaPacific, the editors are hoping to savor two comparatively languid months off from the frantic art world calendar. However, world events, in Hong Kong and elsewhere, won’t relent. This issue is ... Read more →

In the May/June issue of ArtAsiaPacific, we highlight Venice Biennale artists who have imaginatively forged new links between themselves and others. Critic, curator and artist Banyi Huang studies the practice of net-art, bio-art and new-media pioneer Shu Lea ... Read more →

ArtAsiaPacific’s March/April issue explores topics of technology and communication. Our cover Feature is a retrospective take on the work and life of Keiichi Tanaami, whose macabre paintings, installations and avant-garde animations conflating Japanese Edo-era aesthetics with ... Read more →

As ArtAsiaPacific completes its 14th year of publishing an annual review on art from across the Asia-Pacific to the Middle East, we have come to reflect on how the Almanac is a living archive of the ... Read more →

It has been one year since the New York Times published a report on the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The article unleashed the #MeToo movement that has swept across the ... Read more →

ArtAsiaPacific’s special 25th anniversary edition is focused on the future. With contributions by game-changing artists, curators, gallerists and other cultural figures who resist face-value analyses of what seems imminent, issue 110 is part science-fiction, part historiography ... Read more →

A saffron-painted merry cow and the mass-market dairy products it produces form the centerpiece of Yellow Cow (2006–10), a multi-part installation by the Saudi Arabian artist Ahmed Mater that catapults the Quran tale it references into the present day. That Mater ... Read more →

In honor of ArtAsiaPacific’s 25th anniversary, our focus this year is on looking forward and backward, while still savoring the effervescence of the present moment.  This juxtaposition is reflected in the main Features of our May/June issue. From the ... Read more →

In ArtAsiaPacific’s March/April issue, we examine how artists have reconciled fundamental beliefs with the material world, prodding and predicting what tomorrow offers. Our cover Feature chronicles the life of Kwok Mang-Ho, whose performance and installation art in ... Read more →

Even before we had signed off on the final proofs for this year’s Almanac, it occurred to us that real closure was impossible. The world we track is constantly changing, and as our cover and the ... Read more →

Even before we had signed off on the final proofs for this year’s Almanac, it occurred to us that real closure was impossible. The world we track is constantly changing, and as our cover and the ... Read more →

As we went to print with the November/December issue of ArtAsiaPacific, serious allegations of sexual harassment against women in the art world and media began to surface. The editors at AAP support the women—whether they work ... Read more →

Far-flung parts of the world are becoming superficially similar, homogenized by commerce and tourism, yet their micro-histories remain full of fascinating details and rich stories. ArtAsiaPacific’s September/October issue looks at artists who examine stories of their ... Read more →

As the hectic art calendar decelerates north of the equator, the July/August issue of ArtAsiaPacific spotlights artists who methodically capture the subtle aspects of time and place that constitute personal and collective memory. We begin with a ... Read more →

For the May/June 2017 issue of ArtAsiaPacific, the editors consider the politicization and commercialization of exhibition-making, and spotlight international artists who will present works at Documenta 14 and the 57th Venice Biennale. This issue’s cover features the ... Read more →

For the March/April 2017 issue of ArtAsiaPacific, the editors consider artistic forms of nonviolent resistance to traditionalism, political regression and social intolerance. We begin with the cover Feature on the late Emirati artist Hassan Sharif (1951–2016). In this ... Read more →

Last year felt like one big systems glitch. Much of the news, particularly from the political realm, was mind-boggling. To say the least, it was a year of upheaval and social discontent. While many countries feel ... Read more →

For the November/December issue of ArtAsiaPacific, we look at artists who in spite of, or because of, all the dire news surrounding global politics, economy and culture, have reimagined different possibilities for art’s relationship to the ... Read more →

For ArtAsiaPacific‘s September/October issue, our 100th issue, we went back into our archive, to look for insight into the ideas and motivations behind the magazine. In our Special Feature, we map the evolution of the art ... Read more →

For the July/August issue of ArtAsiaPacific, we focus on the practice of Pio Abad, whose work—a silk scarf printed with a silhouette of Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines—is featured on the cover. The ... Read more →

The cover feature of ArtAsiaPacific‘s May/June issue looks at accountant-turned-artist-and-writer Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003), an adored figure in the tight-knit artistic and literary circles in India whose works were witty observations on class and the transformations taking ... Read more →

The cover feature of ArtAsiaPacific‘s March/April issue spotlights the labor-intensive work of Hong Kong artist Au Hoi Lam. Independent curator Charles Merewether discusses the evolution of Au’s work, from minimalist paintings of 86,400 tiny colored squares ... Read more →

For ArtAsiaPacific‘s first issue of 2016 we present Almanac XI, a compendium of the most significant art events of 2015 and a look ahead at what’s next in 2016. In addition to spotlighting the 53 countries that constitute our ... Read more →

ArtAsiaPacific‘s November/December issue begins with a look at artistic life in China in the 1970s, specifically through the small landscape paintings of Li Shan. One of the youngest members of the No Name Painting Society, or Wuming Huahui, ... Read more →

For the September/October issue of ArtAsiaPacific, AAP contributing editor Jyoti Dhar considers New Delhi-based Bengali artist and poet Mithu Sen’s surrealistic imagery and text-based practice. Exploring universal notions of gender and beauty, Sen employs a variety of ... Read more →

For the July/August issue of AAP, we look at visual artists whose practice intertwines elements of other creative disciplines—such as music, philosophy, writing, design or activism—and whose following extends beyond the confines of the art world.  ... Read more →

When contemplating what to cover in the May/June issue of ArtAsiaPacific, we were naturally compelled to consider the upcoming Venice Biennale. For this issue, the editors gaze back at some of the recent participants at Venice, ... Read more →

M is for March, money and madness. The art world is in for a dizzying month that includes the Sharjah Biennial, the Armory Show and Asia Week in New York, TEFAF in Maastricht, followed by Art ... Read more →

Although a decade has passed since we published the first edition of the ArtAsiaPacific Almanac, the work continues to present new challenges and pleasures. Over the years, we have tracked all the players in the field: ... Read more →

In the November/December issue of ArtAsiaPacific, we look at post-1980s artists who are attempting to comprehend the rapid transformations taking place today—from a micro-level of specificity, such as the situation of Hong Kong, to larger world-views of ... Read more →

The September/October issue of ArtAsiaPacific concentrates on artists who create projects directly informed by local conditions. We begin with Akram Zaatari, whose practice encompasses filmmaking, research, photography and curating. AAP editor at large HG Masters ruminates ... Read more →

The July/August issue of ArtAsiaPacific looks back at some of the most important artistic figures and movements from Asia after World War II, a period that witnessed the emergence of alternative art practices as well as much ... Read more →

The May/June issue of ArtAsiaPacific looks at artists and collectors, some under the radar, others simply overlooked, who are doing something wonderful and unconventional. For our cover feature, Lesley Ma, M+’s ink art curator, introduces a group of ... Read more →

In the March/April issue of ArtAsiaPacific, we look at ways in which artists are stretching perceptions and broadening the world around us. For our cover feature, Bali-based Neo-Geo artist Ashley Bickerton sits down with Indonesia’s Entang ... Read more →

An all-knowing Big Brother has revealed what we really talked about most in 2013. Around the world, we chatted about what recipe we just tried, the cute habits of a new pet and quitting a presumably bad habit, ... Read more →

Now that the fall season is in full swing, the November/December issue of ArtAsiaPacific focuses on much that is new. In Features we spotlight two pioneering figures who are increasingly coming to the attention of the wider ... Read more →

For the September/October issue of ArtAsiaPacific, we consider artists and genres that push forward important conversations of identity politics. Throughout the 1990s, Asia-Pacific artists in the United States and many postcolonial Asian countries made the choice to create art ... Read more →

For the July/August issue of ArtAsiaPacific, we consider the seminal figures that have shaped contemporary art in Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific, as well as a younger generation of artists who are the protagonists in ... Read more →

For this 20th anniversary of ArtAsiaPacific, the editorial and design teams have concocted a rejuvenating injection of Special Features. In early March, AAP gathered together in Hong Kong a small group of museum directors, curators, writers, ... Read more →

The March/April issue of ArtAsiaPacific examines the work of artists who attempt to capture the fleeting and quotidian. For our cover feature, AAP’s managing editor John Jervis met Lee Kit—who makes painted tablecloths and cardboard clones ... Read more →

ArtAsiaPacific has completed another era: its second decade. In 1993, the art world in the Asia region seemed full of possibilities, or bleak with a lack of them—depending on your perspective. Today, the region is enjoying ... Read more →

Novembers have a tendency to make us reflective. The most immediate topics to emerge from such ruminations might be: Who will soon be the new leaders of China and the next president of the United States? ... Read more →

As most of the art world in the northern hemisphere returns from their summer holidays, a new season unfolds with a dozen large-scale festival exhibitions. In Asia alone, Gwangju, Busan and Media City Seoul in South ... Read more →

While the northern hemisphere basks in summer weather, ArtAsiaPacific has decided to take a hint from this change of seasons and let our hair down. In our desire to lighten the tone, the July/August issue of ... Read more →

Anticipating the season’s many festivals, ArtAsiaPacific 78 considers the work of artists participating in the Biennale of Sydney in Australia, the inaugural Kyiv International Biennale in Ukraine and this year’s Documenta 13—the exhibition established in Kassel, ... Read more →

In our March/April issue, ArtAsiaPacific explores ideas of creative self-determination and examines some of the leading artist-run collectives in the Asia region. For the cover feature, editor-at-large HG Masters considers the work of Berlin-based Vietnamese artist ... Read more →

Never before in the seven years of compiling the Almanac have the editors of ArtAsiaPacific had so much change and upheaval to write about. It began in January 2011 in Tunisia, when the young fruit seller Mohamed ... Read more →

ArtAsiaPacific‘s November/December issue considers the many frameworks already operating in Asia alongside those that are taking root, and the figures who influence these nascent communities. In our cover feature, managing editor Olivier Krischer ponders the work of ... Read more →

Responding to today’s global shifts, our September/October issue seeks out developments among artists’ practices, especially those who embrace genre-defying approaches. We introduce our new associate editor Hemant Sareen, whose Feature article looks at the lineage of ... Read more →

While most of the art world puts up its feet in July and August, ArtAsiaPacific takes a moment to contemplate the subtle and not-so-subtle changes swirling about us today. In this issue, AAP looks at how ... Read more →

The first half of 2011 has been nothing less than precarious. From the protests that are sweeping through the Arab world with varying degrees of optimism and progress to the devastating earthquakes that hit New Zealand ... Read more →

March/April 2011 Out now www.artasiapacific.com As protests spread ... Read more →

ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2011 Out Now www.artasiapacific.com For 18 years, ... Read more →