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Christopher Doyle: Away With Words App

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TEJAL SHAH, still from Between the Waves, 2012, five-channel video installation, channel I,

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“My Dear You Shouldn’t Believe in Fairytales”

Three video artists explore the inconsistencies within popular narratives through modes of reflection, exaggeration, and appropriation Ming Lin

YUANYUAN YANG, In-Between Places (One), 2012.

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Untitled Selection: Yuanyuan Yang

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

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2013 laureate for the Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize, on the set of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010).

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Margins Take Center in Fukuoka Prize

Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Indian artist Nalini Malani have been named the 2013 laureates for the Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize, awarded annually to promote exchange between... The Editors

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Book Blog: Pocket 2: "say, Listen"

Founded in 2008, the Hong Kong-based initiative Soundpocket examines the interstices of art, culture and life through the fluid movements of sound. Its projects include the Around Sound art festiva... Ming Lin

YAM LAU, installation view of Between Past and Present: Lived Moments in Beijing, 2012, at Darling Foundry, Montreal, 2013. Courtesy Darling Foundry.

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Yam Lau’s “The World is a Model of the World”

Steeped in allusions to Chinese literati practices, the artist examines the space where long hours of meditative labor allow reality and fantasy to merge. Aditi Ohri

Entrance to the Shanghai Street Artspace, run by Woofer Ten, during the group exhibition “Yau Ma Tei Self-Rescue Project and Demonstrative Exhibition,” Hong Kong, 2012. Courtesy Wo

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Public Funding Cuts Jeopardize Hong Kong's Nonprofits

Last month, two of Hong Kong’s nonprofit organizations were given notice that they would no longer be receiving government funding from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC), the sta... The Editors

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Concrete Love

Jen Kwok

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“The Artist, the Book and the Crowd”

“The Artist, the Book and the Crowd” transformed the gallery’s premises into a communal reading space, allowing participants to rethink the book's potential for communication. Melanie Pocock

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Away with Words APP

Christopher Doyle

Hou Hanru, the newly appointed artistic director of Rome's MAXXI, will take up the position in September. Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI, Rome.

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Hou Hanru appointed new artistic director of Rome's MAXXI

On July 31, Rome’s National Museum of 21st Century Arts (MAXXI) announced independent curator and critic Hou Hanru as its artistic director. Assuming this role in September, Hou will be ... The Editors

GYUN HUR, installation view of In a Landscape Anew (2012) at The Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA, 2012. Courtesy the artist.

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Broken Flowers: Interview With Gyun Hur

Gyun Hur is most known for her compositions of shredded silk flowers, meticulously arranged to mimic the patterns on her mother’s wedding blanket. In recent years, the Korean-born, Atlan... Diana Seo Hyung Lee

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Shih Chieh Huang’s “Synthetic Seduction”

Featuring bright sculptural works, the show explored the mechanism of bioluminescence. Hanae Ko

JIAJIA ZHANG, He Who Has Two Houses Loses His Mind, 2012, video loop, stills taken from Eric Rohmer‘s film,

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Untitled Selection: Jiajia Zhang

Ann Woo