Shortlists

Shortlists offer thematic selections from AAA Collections, including overviews and annotations by invited contributors. Listed by publication date.

30 Shortlists

Lui Shou Kwan and the New Ink Painting Movement in Hong Kong

Eliza Lai recommends readings on the artist and educator who inspired the New Ink Movement

Speculation as Method

Merve Ünsal recommends artists' books in Turkey that wrestle with narrating the unnarratable

Queer Art in Hong Kong

Chan Sai-Lok recommends readings on queer art in Hong Kong

Transformative Territory: Performance Art and Gender in Post-New Order Indonesia

Wulan Dirgantoro recommends readings on the history of performance art in Indonesia, with a focus on the practices of female artists

The Defiant Fringed Pink: Feminist Art in Japan

Shimada Yoshiko recommends readings that trace the development of feminism and feminist art in Japan from the 1990s to the present

Women in the Visual Arts in India and South Asia: Some Partial Maps

Rakhee Balaram recommends readings on women in the visual arts in India and South Asia

The Semi-Autonomous Zine: Charting Margins and Peripheries in Independent Publishing

Display Distribute recommends readings on zine and independent publishing cultures in East and South East Asia

Women Artists in Mainland China

Jane DeBevoise recommends readings on women artists practising after the end of the cultural revolution

Archiving as an Asian Art Practice

Huang Chien-Hung recommends readings on archival art in Asia

Partition and the Art of South Asia

Rattanamol Singh Johal recommends readings on the Partition of India’s impact on visual arts and curation in South Asia

Art Periodicals in the Philippines, 1970s to 2000s

Ringo Bunoan recommends readings on the rise and fall of the art periodical scene in the Philippines from the 1970s to 2000s

Alternative Publishing Platforms of Experimental Art in China: From the 1990s to Mid-2000s

Xie Congyang recommends readings on the role played by alternative publications in promoting experimental art in Mainland China from the 1990s to mid-2000s

A Shortlist on Myanmar (Burma)

Isabel Ching recommends readings on the evolution of contemporary art in Myanmar amid the rapid transformations of its society and art scenes

A Shortlist on Cambodia

Pamela N. Corey recommends readings on modern and contemporary art in, from, and about Cambodia

A Shortlist on China

Jane DeBevoise recommends readings on art in Mainland China, including art criticism and interviews, media, periodicals, and primary documents

Performance Art Theory

Amelia Jones recommends readings on the development of contemporary performance art and its theoretical underpinnings

A Shortlist on Sri Lanka

Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan recommends readings on modern and contemporary Sri Lankan art

A Shortlist on Singapore

C. J. W.-L. Wee recommends readings on the historical contexts of Singapore’s modern and contemporary art

Shortlist | The Dispute Over Art Criticism

The Dispute Over Art Criticism: Politics, Public Affairs, and the Search for Identity (Hong Kong)

Tang Siu Wa recommends readings on the politics of art writing and criticism in Hong Kong since the 1970s

Diminishing Gaps? Public (Art) Museums in Hong Kong

Eva Man Kit-wah recommends readings on “new museology” and the developing landscape of art museums in Hong Kong

Exhibition as Art Historical Proposition

Patrick Flores recommends readings on how exhibitions shape art history discourse in Asia

Exhibition as Cartographic Articulation

Joan Kee recommends readings on how recent exhibitions have framed nations and/or regions, and the factors that have driven these geographic imaginings