Issue #66 November/December
2009 Now Available!

 



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The initiation of a new points-based system (PBS) for immigration by the United Kingdom Border Agency in November 2008 has sparked considerable controversy in the British arts community. Due to more stringent visa requirements, increased costs for...

The hammering of nails could be heard during the early weeks of “Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78” at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), as visitors followed the instructions on a placard next to a 1961 Yoko Ono work...

“Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Leo Tolstoy famously warns at the beginning of Anna Karenina (1877), presaging the miseries suffered by the title heroine and those around her. For artist Guy Ben-Ner, the joys and sorrows of... Zarina Hashmi has lived and traveled all over the world investigating the essence of identity, drawing upon sources ranging from her childhood memories in Aligarh, India, to contemporary political events. “The Ten Thousand Things” featured three sculptures, three print portfolios and nine unique works on paper as...

On an early winter afternoon in New York, Richard Tsao is dashing about his painting studio on the third floor of a former manufacturing building. Tsao is searching for the wall-mounted thermometer in the studio’s inner sanctum, an enclosed space measuring nine-by-twelve feet that...

Events

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Christie's

 

 

 

 

 

 

ArtAsiaPacific's Almanac 2010 is now available!

 

ArtAsiaPacific is proud to support “Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh” at the Whitechapel Gallery, London from January 21-April 11, 2010. For more information click here.

 

ArtAsiaPacific will be an exhibitor at The Armory Show in New York City from March 4-7, 2010. For more information click here.


ArtAsiaPacific will be an exhibitor at Art Dubai from March 17-20, 2010. For more information click here.


Christie's and ArtAsiaPacific Present "Asian Contemporary Art: In Perspective" a special supplement of selected articles from past issues of AAP that highlight the exciting artistic developments in Asia (click to download pdf) 


 

 

 

 

News

"Iran bans political activist and artist from leaving country"
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/dec/1079.html

"Artists Battle Eviction as Art Districts Face Demolition in China"
http://life.globaltimes.cn/art/2010-01/495890.html

"Female Gallerists Open New Spaces in Karachi"
http://www.minnpost.com/globalpost/2009/12/23/14534/art_power_and_single_women_in_pakistan

"Uzbekistan Censors German Photographer in Museum Show"
http://www.harakat.net/en/el_news.php?id=33

"Plans in Development for Baku Contemporary Art Museum"
http://artinvestment.ru/en/news/artnews/20091227_baku_contemporary_art_museum.html

"North Korea Opens New Art Exhibition in Beijing"
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/24/north.korea.art/

"Iranian Art Officials Face Pressure from Government"
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091209/FOREIGN/712089830/1011/NEWS

"North Korean Artists Barred Entry to Australia"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/07/2764366.htm?section=justin

"Uzbekistan Files Criminal Case Against Renowned Photographer and Documentary Filmmaker"
http://enews.ferghana.ru/article.php?id=2597

"British and Tate Museum Form New Committees for Middle Eastern Art"
http://blog.moveone.info/industrynews/british-museum-tate-expand-focus-middle-east/

"US Foundation Gifts Israel Museum $12 million for expansion"
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/mandel_foundation_donates_12_m.html

"Artwork by Shirin Neshat and Yoko Ono to be displayed on NYC Taxis"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/arts/design/26taxicab.html

"Whitney Biennial Announces Participating Artists, Reduced Program"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/arts/design/11vogel.html?_r=2



archived news


Sightings

ArtAsiaPacific: IN CONVERSATION WITH SUBODH GUPTA at Christie's Hong Kong, as part of their Autumn 2009 Lecture Series. William Pym, managing editor, in conversation with leading artist Subodh Gupta on Saturday, November 28, 2009 from 2:30-3:30pm at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Please register online, for more information click here.


ArtAsiaPacific
is proud to support the Asia Art Archive's Annual Fundraiser on December 5, 2009. For more information click here.


ArtAsiaPacific
will be an exhibitor at Art Basel Miami Beach from December 2-6! Please visit our booth M11. For more information click here.


ArtAsiaPacifi
c: IN CONVERSATION WITH JUSTINE COOPER. Sara Raza, AAP Almanac co-editor, hosts an artist's talk with Justine Cooper best known for her intelligent and witty approach to investigating the relationship between the visual arts, contemporary sciences, medicine, public space and time. On the occasion of her current exhibition "Living in Sim," on Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 6:30-7:30pm at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York City. For more information click here

ArtAsiaPacific: WHERE I WORK. IN THE STUDIO OF JUSTINE COOPER. In a special joint event with ArtAsiaPacific Magazine (AAP) Australian artist Justine Cooper opens the doors to her Brooklyn studio for a candid talk about her practice over the last decade; and discusses the role of the artist’s studio as a laboratory for artistic production and spectacle with Eyebeam's Executive Director Amanda McDonald Crowley. Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:30-3:30pm. 

This event is strictly RSVP-only due to limited capacity so please email your interest in attending to info@daneyalmahmood.com with "studio visit" in the subject box.


Christie's
and ArtAsiaPacific Present "Asian Contemporary Art: In Perspective" a special supplement of selected articles from past issues of AAP that highlight the exciting artistic developments in Asia (click to download pdf)

AAP's Annual Almanac 2009 is now available!

AAP will be an exhibitor at Frieze Art Fair, London from October 14-28, 2009! Please visit our booth M12. For more info click here.

AAP is a media partner of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York City, May 10-18. For more information click here

AAP is the exclusive art media partner at Art HK in Hong Kong, May 13-17, 2009. For more information click here

Emerging Hong Kong artist Lee Kit will create a special collaboration in ArtAsiaPacific's booth for ArtHK. For more information click here

AAP will be an exhibitor at Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, June 9-14, 2009. For more information click here

AAP will participate in Art Basel's Art Lobby Talks on Saturday, June 13, 3 to 3.30 pm. The talk "Good Words, Good Thoughts and Good deeds: Art practice in the time of crisis and war" will include artists Lida Abdul (Kabul/Los Angeles) and Fereydoun Ave (Paris/Tehran) with ArtAsiaPacific's West Asia Editor Sara Raza. For more information click here










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