ACAW 2018 | Press Coverage
ACAW 2018 THINKING COLLECTIONS Pop-up Exhibitions Coverage
The Brooklyn Rail, “Thinking Collections: Telling Tales: A Survey Exhibition of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective”
Osman Can Yerebakan, November 26, 2018
“As they shift between mediums, sites, and, most importantly, audiences, Kyzyl Tractor is ultimately “anti-city,” according to Sludskiy. Theirs is a language developed to explore art without the city.” > View as a PDF
ArtAsiaPacific, “Focus Kazakhstan – Thinking Collections: Telling Tales”
Mimi Wong
“…the collective’s collaborative and prolific efforts did offer a clear-eyed and distinct vision of a society undergoing rapid change, whose fate is yet to be determined.” > View as a PDF
OCULA, “Focus Kazakhstan–Thinking Collections: Telling Tales”
Fawz Kabra, November 15, 2018
“The performance…was full of critical contradictions, historical clues, and poetry that took its audience on a sometimes-humorous journey to beat into sublimation the negativity and conflicts in the city…” > View as a PDF
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #7: 29 October–11 November 2018”
Sharmistha Ray, November 15, 2018
“The effectiveness of Asia Contemporary Art Week is that it continues to assert ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian’ as a loose conglomerate of relational strategies, rather than as fixed notions of place and identity… to instead offer a framework… about what art can do.” > View as a PDF
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #6: 15–26 October 2018”
Bansie Vasvani, November 5, 2018
“…’new art aims to invent its own standards of quality, and this is how improvisation acquires superlative importance.’” > View as a PDF
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #5: 11–17 October 2018”
Banyi Huang, November 2, 2018
“…’Asian-ness’ is not deployed as a homogenising concept, but rather an open-ended container that sheds light on inherited biases in our perception, different modes of spirituality, and ambiguous spaces located outside the museum context.” > View as a PDF
Art Radar, “Thinking collections, telling tales: ‘Focus Kazakhstan’ Part III in Jersey City – artist profile + curator interview”
October 23, 2018
“[Kyzyl Tractor asks] how can we as human beings, as artists, as a group of people who have energetic power, change things and not just sit with or accept them?” > View as a PDF
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #4: 3–9 October 2018”
Banyi Huang, October 23, 2018
“Bahar Behbahani…elegantly [points] out [that] history and knowledge systems are not rigid and devoid of agency; rather, they are porous, organic and interwoven with intimate narratives.” > View as a PDF
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #3: 23–29 September 2018”
Sophia McKinnon, October 15, 2018
“…this stage is characterised by an exploration of facts and fictions, tests of temporality, and a ‘who made whom’ questioning of end-products and end-points.” > View as a PDF
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #2: 14–23 September 2018”
Sophia McKinnon, October 5, 2018
“[Farideh Sakhaeifar’s Halabja was] a fraught and sinuous test of the body remembering; each dragging foot and twisting hip a kind of monumental metronome. Almost everyone present watched the loop twice.” > View as a PDF
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #1: 5–15 September 2018”
Sophia McKinnon, September 21, 2018
“Kunitani explains that rather than working towards a finite form, he allowed his breath to guide the shape of the rods. They hang suspended like sentient lifeforms… placed anchor-like on the floor.” > View as a PDF
ArtForum, “New York’s Asia Contemporary Art Week Launches with Expanded Program”
September 7, 2018
“[ACAW 2018 encapsulates] director Leeza Ahmady’s concept of ‘seeing the artist as the first collector and artists’ studios as primary collections,’ …” > View as a PDF
ARTFIX Daily, “Asia Contemporary Art Week Expands to an Entire Season of Events in NYC Region”
August 30, 2018
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Asia Society, “2018 Asia Contemporary Art Week”
ACAW 2018 Consortium Partners Exhibitions & Programs Coverage
Emily Jacir: La Mia Mappa at Alexander and Bonin
– The Brooklyn Rail, “Emily Jacir: La Mia Mappa”, by Alan Gilbert, October 3, 2018
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Chow Chun Fai at Eli Klein Gallery
– ArtAsiaPacific, “CHOW CHUN FAI”, by Mimi Wong
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Takashi Kunitani: Spaceless Space at Ulterior Gallery
– Art Daily, “Takashi Kunitani’s second solo exhibition with Ulterior Gallery opens in New York”
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Park Chan-Kyong: Citizen’s Forest at Tina Kim Gallery
– Blouin Artinfo, “Park Chan-Kyong’s ‘Citizen’s Forest’ at Tina Kim Gallery, New York”, September 19, 2018
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– Whitehot Magazine, “TWO FROM KOREA”, by Robert C. Morgan, September 2018
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Manit Sriwanichpooms at Tyler Rollins Fine Art
– Blouin Artinfo, “Manit Sriwanichpooms Shocking Pink Story at Tyler Rollins”, September 18, 2018
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Yoon Hwan Bae: At the Old Ball Game at Doosan Gallery
– Blouin Artinfo, “Yoon Hwan Baes at the Old Ball Game at Doosan Gallery, New York”, September 28, 2018
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The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New Media at Asia Society
– The Wall Street Journal, “The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India’ Review: A Movement Looks Forward”, by Alex Teplitzky, September 15, 2017
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Shang Yang: New Works at Chambers Fine Art
– artnet News, “Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week”, by Sarah Cascone, September 10, 2018
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Joan Vennum at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
– Blouin Artinfo, “Joan Vennum’s ‘Other Atmospheres’ at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York”, September 13, 2018
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Huma Bhabha & Shanay Jhaveri at Metropolitan Museum of Art “We come in Peace”
– ArtNews, “Fertile Ground: Huma Bhabha, Joan Jonas, Maren Hassinger, and Naima Green in Parks and Art Spaces Around New York”, by Jessica Lynne, October 18, 2018
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– The New York Times, “A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden”, by Martha Schwendener, September 12, 2018
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A Time Before We Were Born: Visions of Arcadia in Contemporary Painting at Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery
– artnet News, “Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week”, by Sarah Cascone, September 10, 2018
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– Talking Pictures, “Summer is not over until 9/23! : A Time Before We Were Born: Visions of Arcadia in Contemporary Painting”, September 19, 2018
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Queens International 2018: Volumes at Queens Museum
– The Queens Tribune, “An Interview With Volumes: Queens International 2018 Co-Curators Sophia Marisa Lucas and Baseera Khan”, by Thomas Moody, October 11, 2018
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Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura at Japan Society
– Artforum, “Yasumasa Morimura on the empty center of identity”, October 19, 2018
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– artnet News, “Morimura, Japan’s Most Astonishing Art Chameleon, Is Coming to New York With a Major Debut Show”, by Sarah Cascone, June 1, 2018
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– Wallpaper, “Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura faces off with Old Masters in New York”, by Charlotte Jansen, October 17, 2018
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Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing at Hudson River Museum
– The New York Times, “Maya Lin Captures the Hudson’s Beauty and Power”, by Abby Ellin, October 25, 2018
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– Yonkers Times, “Artist Maya Lin Comes to Hudson River Museum”, October 12, 2018
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Umber Majeed: In the Name of the Hypersurface of the Present at Rubber Factory
– Bedford + Bowery, “Riot Gear With Feminist Slogans and More Exhibitions This Week”, by Cassidy Dawn Graves, October 15, 2018
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– Office, “In Creation There’s Destruction”, by John Martin Tilley, November 4, 2018
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The Safarani Sisters: Reincarnation at Roya Khadjavi Projects
– Artscope, “FROM TWO, ONE.”, by Nancy Nesvet, October 25, 2018
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Minoru Yoshida: Performances in New York at Japan Society
– Artforum, “Minoru Yoshida”, Critic’s Pick by Nicholas Chittenden Morgan
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Sopheap Pich at Tyler Rollins Fine Art
– ArtAsiaPacific, “SOPHEAP PICH”, by Hanae Ko
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American Peril: Imagining the Foreign Threat at Twelve Gates Arts
– Broad Street Review, “American Peril, Israeli short films, Diwali at the Art Museum, and more”, by Alaina Johns, October 31, 2018
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Christopher K. Ho: Aloha to the world at the Don Ho Terrace at Bronx Museum
– Frieze, “Who Really is Christopher K. Ho?”, by Hera Chan, October 31, 2018
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– Mott Haven Herald, “Aloha to the world from the Don Ho Terrace”, by Andee Tagle, October 3, 2018
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– Artforum, “Minoru Yoshida”, Critic’s Pick by Nicholas Chittenden Morgan
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Sopheap Pich at Tyler Rollins Fine Art
– ArtAsiaPacific, “SOPHEAP PICH”, by Hanae Ko
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American Peril: Imagining the Foreign Threat at Twelve Gates Arts
– Broad Street Review, “American Peril, Israeli short films, Diwali at the Art Museum, and more”, by Alaina Johns, October 31, 2018
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Christopher K. Ho: Aloha to the world at the Don Ho Terrace at Bronx Museum
– Frieze, “Who Really is Christopher K. Ho?”, by Hera Chan, October 31, 2018
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– Mott Haven Herald, “Aloha to the world from the Don Ho Terrace”, by Andee Tagle, October 3, 2018
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