Longform explorations of recent art in Asia, archives, art histories, urgent preoccupations, and other areas of interest
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Growing from the Barren Ground: Part 2
Xie Congyang looks at three art exhibitions in northwest China from the mid-1980s to the turn of the century
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Motherhood, Motherland: Photography, Representation, and Agency of the Filipina Overseas Worker
Alice Sarmiento asks whether exhibitions and artist-led initiatives can change how we connect space, citizenship, and acts of caregiving
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Growing from the Barren Ground: Part 1
Xie Congyang traces the emergence of unofficial art exhibitions in northwest China from the late 1970s
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Gendering Her Art: The Category of “Woman” in the Art History of Hong Kong
Christina Yuen Zi Chung looks at gender-themed art exhibitions and their relation to feminist discourse in Hong Kong
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On Ha Bik Chuen: Collection and Collage
Leo Li Chen explores how Ha Bik Chuen’s collection opens up new ways to understand Hong Kong art history
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Notes on the "Vernacular" Milieus of Art Writing
Sneha Ragavan questions the dominance of English in India’s art historiography and criticism
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Practicing Friendship: Respecting Time as a Curator
Zoe Butt considers the significance of friendship for artistic languages and forms
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17 Lost Art Exhibitions
Jack Persekian documents a global pattern of loss for Palestinian art
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44 Tonnes
Clare Butcher on reconstructing the histories of the dehistoricised
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Elision, Excess, Parody, Disavowal: Justine Frank in the Museum
Roee Rosen discusses the challenge of allowing fiction to overwhelm through its excess
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In Defence of the Art Mall
Seth Denizen explores the art in art malls and competing claims to public spaces
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Notes from the Field: Navigating the Afterlife of The Other Story
Rasheed Araeen's critical challenge to art historical narratives through art curation
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Publics, Histories, Value: The Changing Stakes of Exhibitions
Note from the Editors
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Sites of Construction and Political Dissent: Central Asia Pavilions in Venice 2005–2013
Georgy Mamedov provides a critical overview of the politico-economical context of Central Asian art history
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The Problems of Digital Utopia: Young Hae-Chang Heavy Industries on the Web
Ahyoung Yoo discusses the playful masking and unmasking of potential digital utopias
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The Unsettled Pleasures of Viewing: Exhibition as a Meeting Point Between Our Bodies and Artwork
Biljana Ciric discusses images as intimate, fragmented readings of exhibition experiences
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A Short Story of Bagyi Aung Soe in Five Images
Yin Ker discusses the transformation of desire through meditation on desire
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After the Plague
Phoebe Wong considers an exhibition's haunting imagery after the traumas of SARS and Leslie Cheung's suicide
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Atlas of Asia Art Archive
Map Office explores how Asia is a point of arrival and departure
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Contemporary Asian Art at the Guggenheim
Three approaches to framing contemporary art outside a Eurocentric framework
