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Issue 90

Sep/Oct 2014

**NATTAPON NUKULKAM**, _Madness Motorcycle Club_, 2013, digital print. Courtesy the artist.

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Trailing Madness: Interview With Nattapon “Gaow” Nukulkan

Motorcycling gangs—often unapproachable and intimidating to an outsider—carry with them an air of mystery. Emerging photographer Nattapon “Gaow” Nukulkam, who wanted to delv... Helen Morgan

MOHAMMAD GHAZALI, Agha Reza Reza Abbasi known as Reza Abbasi, 17th Century Painter, from

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Untitled Selection: Mohammad Ghazali

Ann Woo

Nalini Malani, the St. Moritz Art Masters Lifetime Achievement Award winner, on the Cartier gala night at Kempinski Grand Hotel des Bains, St. Moritz. Courtesy St. Moritz Art Maste

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Nalini Malani wins St. Moritz Art Masters Lifetime Achievement Award

On August 24, at the seventh annual St. Mortiz Art Masters festival (8/22–31), held in Engadine, Switzerland, Nalini Malani took home the St. Moritz Art Masters Lifetime Achievement Award in ... Vanessa Woo

Lee Yong-woo, president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation, who announced his resignation on August 18 after controversy surrounding art censorship. Courtesy Gwangju Biennale Found

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Art Censorship Shakes Gwangju Biennale

On August 18, Lee Yong-woo, president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation, announced his decision to resign over controversy surrounding a satirical painting of South Korean president Park Geun-hye.... Vanessa Woo

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Film Blog: The Turning

From Forrest Gump (1994) to Hugo (2011), countless novels have been adapted as screenplays, ending up as successful movies adored by millions. The Turning (2013), one of the films shown at the 38th... Susanna Chen

Melbourne Art Fair 2014, held at the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. Photo by Michael Young for ArtAsiaPacific.

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Report: Melbourne Art Fair

Now in its 25th year, the Melbourne Art Fair (MAF) was still eager to shake off the perception that it is a somewhat dowdy old lady. Even Barry Keldoulis, CEO of Art Fairs Australia, which now mana... Michael Young

Yang Zhichao in his Beijing studio. Photo by Michael Young for ArtAsiaPacific.

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Yang Zhichao’s Love Story

There are sure to be both prurient reactions and voyeuristic interest when details of Chinese artist Yang Zhichao’s Love Story become public in 2016. Originally a collection of punch cards,... Michael Young

MOHAMMADREZA MIRZAEI, Stammer, 2013-ongoing. Copyright the artist.

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Untitled Selection: Mohammadreza Mirzaei

Ann Woo

Installation view of **SHIGERU BAN**'s _Paper Log House_ (1995– ) in

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ArtCrush 2014 And The Opening Of The Shigeru Ban-Designed Aspen Art Museum

Colorado’s Aspen Art Museum (AAM) kicked off a four-day celebration last week for it’s new USD 45 million, 33,000-square-foot Shigeru Ban-designed building, which opened to the pub... Paul Laster

**TONY ALBERT**, _We Can Be Heroes_, 2013–14, pigment print on paper, 124 x 115 x 2 cm. Courtesy Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.

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Tony Albert Wins Prestigious Telstra Award For Indigenous Art

Following his win of the 2014 Basil Sellers Art Prize two weeks ago, for Once Upon A Time, for which he received AUD 100,000 (USD 92,780), Tony Albert again makes news by winning the Telstra Award. Nicole Ching

Installation view of Berlin-based artist duo **KNOX AND TONNER**'s

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Field Trip: Huang Jue Ping Art Hive, Chongqing

Huang Jue Ping is the locus of a small, busy, thriving arts hub within the massive and fast-developing municipality of Chongqing, the capital of southwest China. Chongqing has a rich atmosphere tha... Oliver Gosling

**JAMES RICHARDS**, _Misty Suite_, 2009, from the series

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Drifting Emotions: Interview with James Richards

The young British artist James Richards, known for his atmospheric collages of grainy analogue video, recently made headlines as one of the four shortlisted nominees for the prestigious Turner Priz... Tom Baxter

Portrait of Mai-Thu Perret. Courtesy Annik Wtter and Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong.

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A League of Their Own: Conversation with Mai-Thu Perret

For the past 15 years, Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret has been building on the ongoing project “Crystal Frontier” (1999– ), based on a multidisciplinary narrative featuring a group o... Sylvia Tsai