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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Close to the Frame
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CONTRIBUTORS
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Takeshi Shikama on Matsuo Basho
NEWS ROUND UP
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YOLO to “Yo, No”
Money Well Spent?
Global Cooling
Small or Medium?
ENLIGHTENED DESIGNS
DREAM WORLDS
Dinh Q. Lê 1968–2024 • Humming to the Little Paradise
LAP-SEE LAM
WHERE TWO CITIES MEET • Tracing the history of Hong Kong artists at the Venice Biennale
BUNDANON: NATURE CALLS • Exploring modernist painter Arthur Boyd’s philanthropic legacy
THE SOUL OF OKINAWA
THROUGH A LENS OF OBSESSION PIXY LIAO
ALA YOUNIS
CHUN HEI STEPHEN WONG
ARCHIE MOORE
The Sacred and the Profane YOUNG-JUN TAK
60th Venice Biennale Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere
Hu Yun Mount Analogue
Between Grief and Hope, an Archipelago
Bruce Nauman
Follow the Feeling
Prarthna Singh and Snigdha Poonam 2024: Notes from a Generation
Lala Rukh In the Round
Hayv Kahraman She has no name
Trương Công Tùng Trail Dust
Xu Bing Word Alchemy
THE ACT OF LOOKING
YUNCHUL KIM • Machines of Revelation
TSAI MING-LIANG • Bound by Nothing