The Editors

Portrait of *QAIS ASSALI*. Courtesy the artist.

Ideas

Power and Play: Interview with Qais Assali

Diana Seo Hyung Lee

The campus of SCAD Hong Kong, located in the former North Kowloon Magistracy in Sham Shui Po. The school will be shutting down in June. Courtesy SCAD.

News

Students Decry SCAD's Closure in Hong Kong

Pamela Wong

The cheese wontons, and sweet and sour dipping sauce, with Thai rice soup, and butterfly pea tea. All photos by Linda Da Cruz for ArtAsiaPacific.

Ideas

Cheap & Cheerful: Siam Noodles

Linda da Cruz

TEFAF Maastricht, who closed its 2020 edition four days ahead of schedule after an exhibitor tested positive for Covid-19, maintains that there was “no risk” to fair attendees. Cou

News

Art Fair Claims “No Risk” to Visitors Despite Infected Gallerist

HG Masters

Installation view of *RICHARD STREITMATTER-TRAN*’s solo exhibition “We No Longer See the Stars,” at de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong, 2020. All images courtesy the artist and de Sarthe

Imported

“We No Longer See the Stars”: Richard Streitmatter-Tran on the Surveillance State

Yvonne Leung

Installation view of DUMB TYPE’s TRACE / REACT II, 2020, multimedia installation, dimensions variable, at “Actions + Reflections,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2019–20. Photo

News

Are We at New Levels of Dumb? The Return of Dumb Type

Pamela Wong

Installation view of *SHAIKHA AL MAZROU*’s (left) _Enlarge_, 2018, wet coated steel, 115 x 114 cm; and (right) _Engage_, 2018, wet coated steel, diptych, 115 x 233 x 60 cm. Courtes

Ideas

UAE Previews: March 2020

The Editors

News

TEFAF Maastricht Closes Early After Exhibitor Diagnosed with Covid-19

Pamela Wong

Portrait of BROOK ANDREW. All photos by Zan Wimberley. Courtesy Biennale of Sydney.

Ideas

Giving the Biennale of Sydney an Edge: Interview with Brook Andrew

Michael Young

(Left) *JORDAN WOLFSON*'s work, provisionally titled The Cube (2017– ), has been purchased by Canberra's National Gallery of Australia (NGA) for nearly USD 5 million. (Right) The a

News

Artist Boasts NGA Commission Will Allow Simulations of Sexual Assault

HG Masters

Installation view of the entrance to “The Square: Part 3. 2019,” at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, 2019–20. Courtesy MMCA, Gwacheon / Seoul / Deoksug

Imported

A Spectacular History of Icons — "The Square: Art and Society in Korea 1900–2019"

Ophelia Lai

Installation view of “Japan Supernatural,” at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2020. Photo by Jenni Carter. Courtesy Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Imported

"Japan Supernatural": Phantom Beings Through the Ages

Michael Young

*CHIKAKO YAMASHIRO* (left) and *HIKARU FUJII* (right) are winners of the second Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA). Image courtesy the artists and Tokyo Arts and Space.

News

Hikaru Fujii and Chikako Yamashiro Win 2020 Tokyo Contemporary Art Award

Kylie Yeung

*JEFFREY SHAW* has been announced as recipient of the 2020 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. Copy right the artist. Courtesy the arti

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Jeffrey Shaw Wins 2020 Acm Siggraph Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art

Yvonne Leung

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