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Throughout 2018, the #MeToo movement spread across different art scenes in Asia. In #MeToo, Part Two, Almanac 2019’s Big Story of the year, managing editor Ysabelle Cheung recounts key instances of sexual misconduct survivors coming forth with their stories despite conservative social and legal infrastructures, and the outcomes of their actions. Read the full article.
Cultural Accumulation
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 region’s cultural activity and present history.
#MeToo, Part Two
The #MeToo movement, ignited in the United States in late 2017, has blazed across art scenes in Asia, where, in many places, conservative, patriarchal social and legal infrastructures
have stymied the fight for protections against sexual misconduct.
Stayin’ Alive
At the turn of the 21st century, China emerged as the world’s future art market hotbed.
Lin Tianmiao
A spectrum of fluorescent green and teal liquids jetted into the air, in a dizzying chromatic symphony contained within a field of glass capillaries sprouting vertically from a plush pink rug.
Philippines
In his third year in office, President Rodrigo Duterte, infamous for his unstatesmanlike behavior, continued to disregard judicial processes in his war against drugs that has led to thousands of deaths, including those of political figures.
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