EDITOR’S LETTER
By Elaine W. Ng

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 smaller also raise the question of what constitutes “collective memory.” Artists are often early barometers of change, and an interest in archiving and reclaiming one’s own history has recently been particularly prominent in many parts of Asia. [more]

The Point
Dirty Dealings: Beware of the Art World Blacklist
By Charlie Finch

Art dealing and collecting is a game, an art as much as it is a transaction. In the past century, this game became exactly as intricate and advanced as what we now call contemporary art. But as a recent court case frighteningly suggests, this game may be caving in on itself. [more]