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What’s ArtReview Asia been reading this summer?

ArtReviewBook Reviews27 July 2018ArtReview Asia

ARA Books. Photo: Mikael Gregorsky. ARA Summer 2018

The Last Children of Tokyo, by Yoko Tawada

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani, Portobello Books, £9.99 (softcover)
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Uproar in Heaven, 1965. ARA Summer 2018 Book Review

Transforming Monkey: Adaptation & Representation of a Chinese Epic, by Hongmei Sun

University of Washington Press, $30/£19.50 (softcover)
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WHITEWALLING: Art, race & Protest in 3 acts, by Aruna D'Souza. ARA Summer 2018 Book Review

Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts, by Aruna D’Souza

Badlands Unlimited, $19.99 (hardcover)
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Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata 2. ARA Summer 2018 Book Reviews

Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Portobello Books, £12.99 (softcover)
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The Topology of Violence, by Byung-Chul Han. ARA Summer 2018 Book Review

Topology of Violence, by Byung-Chul Han

Translated by Amanda DeMarco, The MIT Press, £14.99/$19.95 (softcover)
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We Need New Words for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Travis DiehlOpinionartreview.com07 March 2025

The problem is the impulse to defend ‘DEI’ as a metaphor without making the case for its essential value

The People's March, Washington, D.C., January 2025 © CC 2.0. Photo: Jason Gooljar

Art, Empathy and Ecological Armageddon

Mark RappoltReviewsArtReview Asia07 March 2025

‘DANCING WITH ALL’ at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa toys with a tension between what’s ‘real’ and what’s artifice

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Marshmallow Laser Feast Won’t Save the Planet

Greta RainbowReviewsartreview.com07 March 2025

While ‘Entwined’ at Bitforms gallery makes Earth look pretty, the sources of the artists’ AI imagery are being burned, razed and flooded

Marshmallow Laser Feast Breathing with the Forest 2023 Video (color, sound) Dimensions variable, Landscape orientation ; 4 min, loop. Courtesy bitforms gallery and the artist

The Oneness Gallery presents, Marigpa: A Golden Visionary

ArtReviewPartner Contentartreview.com07 March 2025

The London-based artist speaks to ArtReview about influence, abstraction and materialism

How Donald Rodney Found Refuge for the Black Body

Tendai MutambuOpinionartreview.com06 March 2025

Rodney was an expert of fragmentation, distortion and the obfuscation of a unified self-image

Marnie Weber, For Female Storytellers Everywhere

Martin HerbertReviewsArtReview06 March 2025

In film and paintings, ‘When Roses Bloom’ at Heidi, Berlin explores the hallucinatory nature of ageing

2026 Venice Biennale pavilions: your go-to list [Updated]

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com06 March 2025

The latest announcement: Endre Koronczi will represent Hungary

In Pictures: Liu Jiakun wins 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com05 March 2025

Liu was a part of China’s Zhiqing (“educated youth”) during the cultural revolution

Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026 curators announced

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com05 March 2025

Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed will direct third edition

Tatsumi Orimoto, ‘Bread Man’, 1946–2025

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com05 March 2025

The Japanese artist went on to collaborate with his mother

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