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To mark our 100th issue (Sept/Oct), we map the evolution of the art world by identifying five reoccurring terms, citing the first time they appear and demonstrating how their meanings have evolved over two decades. From among several hundreds of terms, we’ve honed in on: archive, intervention, ecosystem, censorship and revival.
The First 100
The editors have anticipated ArtAsiaPacific’s 100th issue for more than a year.
Firenze Lai on Francis Bacon
Roughly more than a decade has passed since I first encountered the work of British painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992).
Promises and Perils of Connectivity
Twenty years ago, during the mid-1990s, I was committed to building an artistic career.
Star Collector
Jung-Jae Lee
In the 2012 crime film The Thieves Jung-Jae Lee plays Popie, the leader of a gang of professional crooks who operate in Korea, Hong Kong and Macau, targeting private collections of trophy art and priceless jewels.
In Terms of Art
Across one hundred issues, contributors to ArtAsiaPacific have used many thousands of unique words. Some of them have repeated with unusual frequency; others appear only in specific instances.
A Taxonomy of Fallacies: The Life of Dead Objects
Ali Cherri
Far away from the cosmopolitan metropolis, in the serene landscape of a Danish fjord, artworks by 12 artists from across the globe were gathered in critical dialogue over the state of society today.
When Things Fall apart – Critical Voices on the Radars
Far away from the cosmopolitan metropolis, in the serene landscape of a Danish fjord, artworks by 12 artists from across the globe were gathered in critical dialogue over the state of society today.
Set Adrift: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan
In late August, Alfredo Aquilizan was standing in the middle of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) gallery in Sydney, surrounded by what looked like a miniature city after a hurricane had swept through. Small model houses made from cardboard boxes were scattered haphazardly across the concrete floor. Some had been crushed and discarded; others were piled into broken and twisted heaps, their tiny picket fences—made from kebab sticks—strewn everywhere. A few houses appeared to have survived the storm intact. Alfredo, with detectable melancholy, surveyed the devastation, snapping away with his Leica camera, recording the wreckage.
