Issue #69 July/August 2010 Now Available!

 



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Where I work


With the advent of Google, Wikipedia, reality television and the global embrace of an easy-share, watered-down aesthetic in everything from architecture to graphic design, so-called innovations that attempt to connect the world and make it seem...

The May 5 opening of Australian photographer Bill Henson’s latest exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney’s chic Paddington suburb proved to be a gently congratulatory affair. A crowd of about 500 of Sydney’s...

Toward the end of the third and final day of the Sharjah Art Foundation-organized March Meeting (March 13–16), Sebastian Lütgert of the online film and video database Pad.ma cautioned: “It is possible that 2010 will be remembered as... Bruce Yonemoto’s “North South East West” aimed to explore and expand on the histories we learn from books and our elders. Just four works spread over two gallery floors conveyed the complex set of familial relationships, international exchanges and...

For an artist who has attempted for three decades to systemize the amorphous characteristics of the body and the subjective, Sally Smart’s studio is an appropriate shape. A squat brick building hunched low on an inner city street in Melbourne, Smart’s studio is...

Events


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ArtAsiaPacific is pleased to announce the release of its first hardcover publication, Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond. The catalog is co-published with the Rubin Museum of Art, New York (RMA) for the occasion of the exhibition of the same title running June 19-October 18, 2010. For more information click here


ArtAsiaPacific's
Almanac 2010 is now available!



ArtAsiaPacific
is the official Art Media Partner for the 17th Biennale of Sydney entitled "The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age," opening May 12. For more information click here

 

 

News

Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2010 winners announced
http://ccaa-awards.org/news/media-release-for-ccaa-2010

Reactionary fashion designer and conceptual artist Tobias Wong dies aged 35
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/arts/design/03wong.html

US Department of State dedicated USD 620,000 for preservation of Mongolian cultural monuments
http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4917&Itemid=43

Singapore Art Museum announces historic 2011 collaboration with Paris' Centre Pompidou
http://news.xin.msn.com/en/singapore/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4100593

Iranian dissident artist Daryush Shokof kidnapped in Berlin
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hV7K-RgOsVf6_7jMFphDLRKSevGgD9G8JAQ00

Dr. Lamees Hamdan awarded Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity for work on UAE Venice Biennale pavilion
http://alarab.co.uk/english/display.asp?fname=%5C2010%5C06%5C0623%5Czculturez%5C970.htm&dismode=x&ts=23-6-2010%2015:45:18

Pioneering Chinese Modernist Wu Guanzhong dies aged 90
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/arts/design/30wu.html?ref=arts

Nominees Announced for $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize
http://lindsaypollock.com/news/pinchuk-announces-short-list-for-100k-art-prize/

Art Dubai Appoints Bidoun Magazine Editor as New Director
http://en.chushan.com/news.php?act=detail&id=306

Debates Over Last Surviving Keith Haring Mural in Melbourne
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2010/06/13/haring-melbourne-mural.html


archived news


Sightings

ArtAsiaPacific is the official Fair Partner of Art Hong Kong, May 27-30, 2010. For more information click here

ArtAsiaPacific will be an exhibitor at Art Basel, June 16-20, 2010. For more information click here

Christie's and ArtAsiaPacific Present "Asian Contemporary Art: In Perspective" a special supplement of selected articles from past issues of AAP that highlight the exciting artistic developments in Asia (click to download pdf) 

ArtAsiaPacific and Rossi & Rossi, in association with Tara Shaw Jackson present Leang Seckon in conversation; Thursday, April 1, 6:30-8:30 pm. The Cambodian artist will talk with Sara Raza, London-based independent curator and desk editor of ArtAsiaPacific on the occasion of his first European solo show: "Heavy Skirt." This event is free to the public but reservation is required. Please RSVP to assistant@rossirossi.com with "Artist Talk" in the subject line. For more information on Rossi & Rossi click here.

ArtAsiaPacific is proud to support “Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh” at the Whitechapel Gallery, London from January 21-April 11, 2010. For more information click here

ArtAsiaPacific and James Cohan Gallerypresent a Conversation with Yun-Fei Ji, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 6:30 pm. The artist will speak to Don J. Cohn, senior editor of ArtAsiaPacific Magazine about his work and experiences encountered during his recent travels to China.

ArtAsiaPacific will be an exhibitor at Art Dubai from March 17-20, 2010. For more information click here

ArtAsiaPacific will be an exhibitor at The Armory Show in New York City from March 4-7, 2010. For more information click here

ArtAsiaPacific: IN CONVERSATION WITH SUBODH GUPTA at Christie's Hong Kong, as part of their Autumn 2009 Lecture Series. William Pym, managing editor, in conversation with leading artist Subodh Gupta on Saturday, November 28, 2009 from 2:30-3:30pm at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Please register online, for more information click here.


ArtAsiaPacific
is proud to support the Asia Art Archive's Annual Fundraiser on December 5, 2009. For more information click here.


ArtAsiaPacific
will be an exhibitor at Art Basel Miami Beach from December 2-6! Please visit our booth M11. For more information click here.


ArtAsiaPacifi
c: IN CONVERSATION WITH JUSTINE COOPER. Sara Raza, AAP Almanac co-editor, hosts an artist's talk with Justine Cooper best known for her intelligent and witty approach to investigating the relationship between the visual arts, contemporary sciences, medicine, public space and time. On the occasion of her current exhibition "Living in Sim," on Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 6:30-7:30pm at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York City. For more information click here

ArtAsiaPacific: WHERE I WORK. IN THE STUDIO OF JUSTINE COOPER. In a special joint event with ArtAsiaPacific Magazine (AAP) Australian artist Justine Cooper opens the doors to her Brooklyn studio for a candid talk about her practice over the last decade; and discusses the role of the artist’s studio as a laboratory for artistic production and spectacle with Eyebeam's Executive Director Amanda McDonald Crowley. Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:30-3:30pm. 

This event is strictly RSVP-only due to limited capacity so please email your interest in attending to info@daneyalmahmood.com with "studio visit" in the subject box.


Christie's
and ArtAsiaPacific Present "Asian Contemporary Art: In Perspective" a special supplement of selected articles from past issues of AAP that highlight the exciting artistic developments in Asia (click to download pdf)

AAP's Annual Almanac 2009 is now available!

AAP will be an exhibitor at Frieze Art Fair, London from October 14-28, 2009! Please visit our booth M12. For more info click here.

AAP is a media partner of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York City, May 10-18. For more information click here

AAP is the exclusive art media partner at Art HK in Hong Kong, May 13-17, 2009. For more information click here

Emerging Hong Kong artist Lee Kit will create a special collaboration in ArtAsiaPacific's booth for ArtHK. For more information click here

AAP will be an exhibitor at Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, June 9-14, 2009. For more information click here

AAP will participate in Art Basel's Art Lobby Talks on Saturday, June 13, 3 to 3.30 pm. The talk "Good Words, Good Thoughts and Good deeds: Art practice in the time of crisis and war" will include artists Lida Abdul (Kabul/Los Angeles) and Fereydoun Ave (Paris/Tehran) with ArtAsiaPacific's West Asia Editor Sara Raza. For more information click here










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