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GORDON BENNETT, Possession Island,1991, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas,162 × 260 cm. Collection Museum of Sydney. Courtesy Milani Gallery, Brisbane. <br>

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Pioneering Australian Artist Gordon Bennett Dies at 58

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*CHEA SEREYROTH*, _Tsunami_, 2014, acrylic, sawdust and mud on canvas, 165 x 216 cm. Courtesy the artist and Romeet Contemporary Art Space, Phnom Penh.

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Chea Sereyroth’s “Mohuntakray (Disaster)”

A high point in contemporary figurative paintings in Cambodia. Roger Nelson

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Liu Chuang’s “Love Story”

A poetic body of work about factory workers' reading habits. Paul Laster

*JOAO VASCO PAIVA*, _Shelter_, 2014, fiberglass sculpture on wool carpet, 170 x 700 x 400 cm. Courtesy Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong.

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João Vasco Paiva’s “Cast Away”

Abstraction lost at sea in a digital ocean. HG Masters

The artist in front of his work _Affirmation_ (2014), which was specially commissioned for the inaugural exhibition at Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Hong Kong this past May.

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Material World: Interview with El Anatsui

Sustainability is a catch phrase in today’s hyper-consumerist world. Similarly, terms such as recycling, re-using and up-cycling have been absorbed into both political and marketing rhetoric,... Ming Lin

Austrian artist Xenia Hausner's solo exhibition opens tomorrow at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Copyright Ronnie Niedermeyer. Courtesy the artist.

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Let’s Get Personal: Interview With Xenia Hausner

 Austrian painter Xenia Hausner is obsessed with people. Captivated by the interpersonal relationships she observes in the everyday, the Austrian artist absorbs these vignettes only to re... Sylvia Tsai

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Untitled Selection: Chang Chien-Chi

Untitled Selection is a bi-weekly post of photography from ArtAsiaPacific’s areas of coverage. Created by photo editor, Ann Woo. Ann Woo

Installation view of John Clang’s “(Re)Contextualizing My Mind,” at Pékin Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 2014. Photo by Kwan Sheung Chi. Courtesy Pékin Fine Arts, Hong Kong.

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Mind Matters: An Interview with Photographer John Clang

Singaporean-born New York-based photographer John Clang is known for his low-tech style; resisting the temptations of Photoshop, he prefers instead to hand-cut and paste images together. &nbsp... Kitty van Leeuwen

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Commuters on Hong Kong Island's Central-Mid-Levels escalator could view the two-channel video by Hong Kong artist Wong Wai-yim, which allegedly contained explicit language. Courtes

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Sex Exhibition In Hong Kong Reveals Conservative Attitudes

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Exterior view of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, designed by SANAA.

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Field Trip: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Kanazawa, located in northern Japan, was once among the country’s four biggest cities during the Edo period (1603–1867).  Fortunately, withstanding numerous bombings during WW... Katherine Tong

View from Hong Kong Island of Carsten Nicolai's Alpha Pulse (2014). Photo by Kitty van Leeuwen for ArtAsiaPacific.

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Carsten Nicolai's "Alpha Pulse" Lights Up the Hong Kong Skyline

What could be a better canvas to work on than Hong Kong’s iconic skyline? For this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong, German light and sound artist Carsten Nicolai did just that with Alpha ... Kitty van Leeuwen

YEESOOKYUNG, Thousand (detail), installed at Art Basel in Hong Kong, 2014. Photo by Jason Bonello. Courtesy Kukje Gallery, Seoul.

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Yeesookyung: Piecing It Together

Piecing together discarded shards of porcelain, and marking joins and bare edges with lines of gold leaf, Korean artist Yeesookyung creates new shapes, often softly curved and anthropomorphic, occa... John Jervis

Ming Wong in action at Nadim Abbas’s Apocalypse Postponed: Absolut Art Bar, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, May 14, 2014. Photo by Ann Woo for ArtAsiaPacific.

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Entering The Post Apocalypse with Ming Wong

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