In this issue

The May/June issue of ArtAsiaPacific features New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar and his nearly four-decade exploration of image-making and sociopolitical divisions; accountant-turned-artist-and-writer Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003), whose works were witty observations on class and the transformations taking place in newly independent India; Chinese-American artist Martin Wong (1946–1999), a fixture of New York City’s Lower East Side art scene in the 1980s; and the five-decade career of Australian color-field abstractionist Sydney Ball. Our special column Inside the Burger Collection examines Tokyo-based sculptor Motohiko Odani and his explorations of the human body.

The issue also profiles Brooklyn-based Japanese painter Mika Tajima; performance and mixed-media artist Ma Qiusha from Beijing; Nepal-born Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol; and Dubai-based curator, collector and philanthropist Dana Farouki.
Other columns include: One on One, in which Taiwanese filmmaker and video artist Chen Chieh-jen ruminates on the Bitai Thoan association, active between 1925–27 as an early form of art-based resistance in Taiwan's colonial history; Fine Print, where copyright lawyer and photographer Michelle Bogre discusses issues surrounding the copyright of public murals; The Point, in which Singaporean artist Heman Chong questions what more artists, curators and writers can do with the country’s generous cultural policies; and a visit to the UAE studio of artist Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim in Where I Work.

Reviews include: Michael Lin at Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila; Michael Joo at Blain|Southern, London; Nasreen Mohamedi at the Met Breuer, New York; plus much more.

ArtAsiaPacific Magazine Description:

For 20 years, ArtAsiaPacific Magazine has been at the forefront of the powerful creative forces that shape contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Covering the latest in contemporary visual culture, ArtAsiaPacific is published 6 times a year in Hong Kong, with editorial desks in 25 countries around the world. Our special annual issue, the ArtAsiaPacific Almanac, published in January, covers the major art events of the past year and forecasts the key trends of the year to come.
The dominant artistic influence in the world today - and for many years to come emanates from the vast territory that lies between Turkey and the Pacific island of Tonga that we call the Asia-Pacific. This territory includes India, China, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Pakistan, New Zealand, Korea and Indonesia, whose combined populations make up an amazing half of the world's total population. Also included are Burma, Cambodia, Kiribati and Uzbekistan - places hitherto overlooked, but which like their gigantic neighbors, are producing cutting-edge art of stunning and unexpected quality.
ArtAsiaPacific is authoritative, accurate, even-handed, exact and essential. Included in each issue is an up-to-date directory of the major galleries, not-for-profit organizations and museums with a focus on contemporary art from our geographical footprint. ArtAsiaPacific offers thoughtful reportage, analysis, comment and criticism to its readers made up of collectors, gallerists, curators, artists and those who want and who need to know the latest developments in the fastest-growing and most astonishing region of the contemporary art world.