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Current Issue - vol 33 no 1, 2013

This Asian Century

Editor Alison Carroll AM

A fascinating overview of the development of contemporary art in Japan, China, SE Asia, India, Korea, indonesia and Pakistan in all its diversity. Themes such as the visual arts and Islam, traditional and craft/art culture, cultures and Asian abstraction are also explored in detail. Until recently Director of Asialink Arts, Carroll is in a unique position to access the knowledge of her colleagues in all the key arts positions in Asia and the ...

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Recent Art Reviews

The Beginning of the End: Claire Marsh and Fiona Roberts
by Stephanie Lyall
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
by Timothy Morrell
GO FIGURE: Contemporary Chinese Portraiture
by Sophie McIntyre
MOFO
by Bryony Nainby
Waradgerie Weaver: Lorraine Connelly-Northey
by John Kean
Build me a city
by Alex Tuffin

Current Features

Exhibitions to watch
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The need for a digital criticism archive in East Asia
Ozaki Tetsuya is Publisher and editor-in-chief of REALTOKYO/REALKYOTO. He comments on the urgency of a digital archive in East Asia for commentary and reviews on contemporary East Asian art in Japanes... More...

A view of Asia from Europe
Akiko Miki is Senior Curator at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. She has been watching or taking part in contemporary art in Asia from the inside in the 1990s and from the outside in the 2000s, when she move... More...

The Flow Under the Flat
Atsushi Sugita is an art critic and Professor of Art and Design at Joshibi University in Japan. He writes about trends in Japanese contemporary art since the 1990s focusing on engagements with local c... More...

Swimming with the current
It is twenty years since Australia started its most recent love-affair with Asia, an affair in which Paul Keating was Mr Darcy spinning a web of soon-to-be requited desire between two scratchy but ul... More...

Cambodia and youth arts
Life is tough in Cambodia if you are not a tourist. Dragonfly Tours is run by a unique partnership model which results in terrific holidays as well as contributing to the betterment of life in Cambodi... More...

History of Cultural Responses to Disastrous Storms (1612-2012)
Jennifer Hamilton reviews English and European responses to big storms over time and suggests that even today we need "the more metaphysical dimensions of our existence - the cultural, social and poli... More...

This Asian Century Launch

Lisa Slade (Project Curator) and Nick Mitzevich (Director), Art Gallery of South Australia with Alison Carroll, Guest editor, This Asian Century

Senator the Hon. Penny Wong and Nicolas Jose

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Artlink Indigenous Beauty & Terror

Chinese edition now available. Buy...

Asian Special Offer

Three back issues to give you valuable and rare in depth resources on the emergence of contemporary art in Asia starting with a fascinating survey of SE Asia in the early nineties, followed by a view right across the Asian Region in 2000, and in 2003 a dedicated issue on China recording the dramatic entry of its artists on the world scene. 3 Asian Back Issues for one special price - Order now!

Indigenous Special Offer

Four acclaimed value-packed special issues from 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2011, on Aboriginal and Torres Strait contemporary art. A ready-made up to date history of this vibrant cultural arena. Includes the mega issue, Artlink Indigenous - Beauty & Terror.

4 Indigenous Back Issues for one special price - Order now!

The Awful Truth About What Art Is

A groundbreaking book that proposes a radically new answer to the questions What is art? and How do we know whether something is a work of art?

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Artrave - Comment, upcoming events, people, news and views

Artrave - The content or the container The artworld and increasingly the ordinary visitor have learned to expect extravagant architectural statements in new or redeveloped art museums or at the very least marble floors and awe-inspiring heights, which may explain the sense of let-down expressed by so many at the reopening of the Museum of Contem...
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Future Issues

Artlink Indigenous #3:
Co-guest editors Stephanie Radok and Daniel Browning (June 2013)

Essential reading. The third in this ground-breaking annual mega-issue series about developments in Aboriginal and Torres Strait contemporary arts.

Artlink Indigenous #3 focuses on the criticism of Aboriginal art, its history, its controversies, its place in Australian art. The issue also includes profiles of new and old artists, and articles on blak humour, the black screen, More...