ArtAsiaPacific RASHID RANA WITHDRAWS AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE INAUGURAL LAHORE BIENNALE 1 Sep 201717 Nov 2018 It was announced on August 31 in a joint statement issued by the Lahore Biennale Foundation and Rashid Rana that the Pakistani artist will be stepping down from his position…
ArtAsiaPacific BLANK PAGE 29 Aug 201717 Nov 2018 Installation view of JE BAAK’s A Journey, 2015, single-channel video with sound: 26 min 16 sec, at the exhibtion “Blank Page,” Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Kumho Museum…
ArtAsiaPacific WANG BING WINS GOLDEN LEOPARD AWARD AT LOCARNO FESTIVAL 17 Aug 201717 Nov 2018 Chinese filmmaker WANG BING has bagged another award this year, this time at the 70th Locarno Film Festival. Copyright Locarno Festival. Courtesy the artist. Chinese director Wang Bing has won the Golden Leopard…
ArtAsiaPacific KOKI TANAKA ARTWORK HARDWARE STOLEN IN MÜNSTER 6 Aug 201717 Nov 2018 Some of the hardware of KOKI TANAKA’s video work Provisional Studies: Workshop #7 How to Live Together and Sharing the Unknown (2017), which is being presented as part of Skulptur Projekte Münster, has been…
ArtAsiaPacific FORMER SOUTH KOREAN CULTURE MINISTER ACQUITTED OF CHARGES FOR ARTIST BLACKLIST 28 Jul 201717 Nov 2018 Former Korean presidential chief of staff Kim Ki-choon and former South Korean culture minister Cho Yoon-sun both faced charges related to the creation of an artist blacklist during the previous…
ArtAsiaPacific EI ARAKAWA ARTWORK COMPLETE AGAIN IN MÜNSTER 28 Jul 201717 Nov 2018 Nearly a month and a half after one LED panel of EI ARAKAWA’s Harsh Citation, Harsh Pastoral, Harsh Münster was stolen, the artist replaced the missing component and restored the artwork to its full state. Photo…
ArtAsiaPacific FULL LIST OF ARTISTS FOR THE 2017 ISTANBUL BIENNIAL ANNOUNCED 25 Jul 201717 Nov 2018 The curators of the 2017 Istanbul Biennial, artist duo MICHAEL ELMGREEN & INGAR DRAGSET, flank director Bige Örer. Photograph by Muhsin Akgun Iksv. Courtesy Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. The list of artists particiatping…
ArtAsiaPacific 31 June 1997 19 Jul 201717 Nov 2018 Part of 'Still in Transition: 20 Years After Hong Kong's Handover' Installation view of “31 June 1997” at Videotage, Hong Kong, 2017. . Videotage presented a project by artist and…
ArtAsiaPacific SELFIE DESTROYS USD 200,000 WORTH OF ART 19 Jul 201717 Nov 2018 Toppled plinths at the 14th Factory, Los Angeles, resulted in damaged artworks that were valued at USD 200,000. Photo from Party Pooper video. . . At the 14th Factory exhibit held in a…
ArtAsiaPacific COUNTERVISION – KITTY CHOU 11 Jul 201717 Nov 2018 Installation view of KITTY CHOU’s “Countervision” at Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 2017. Courtesy Ben Brown Fine Arts. The word “accident” best describes the life and the works of Kitty…
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