ArtAsiaPacific
Contemporary Visual Culture
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Not many are deluded enough to believe that art, even great art, can change the world. But in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks in November, in the political tinderbox of the Subcontinent—with fundamentalist votes up for grabs, army budgets to...
Features
The Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara was arrested on February 27 for drawing graffiti in a New York City subway station. The artist, 49, best known for his cartoon-like drawings of girls with glaring moon-shaped eyes, was stopped by police...
Mumbai-based Nalini Malani began painting in the 1960s and has remained at the cutting edge of contemporary art throughout her long career, expanding her practice in the 1990s to include theater collaborations, video installations and shadow plays—installations of...
Reviews
Luxembourg-born Su-Mei Tse rose to international prominence at the age of 30 when she won the Golden Lion prize for her country's pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Born to a British pianist mother and a Chinese violinist father, Tse studied music and plays the...
Where I work
On the eve of the Tate Triennial, Shezad Dawood is reading the free tabloid thelondonpaper in his studio in London's bohemian East End. He is amused to find himself on a Who's Who list defining this decade's new art. This freshly minted movement is the focus of this year's Tate Triennial—...