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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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7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival Review: Maximalist Proof

Max Crosbie-JonesReviewsArtReview Asia25 April 2025

After a 13-year hiatus, BEFF returns as a collective display of artistic might

Racheal Crowther Reveals the Dissonance of Modern Life

Gabriela AchaReviewsArtReview25 April 2025

In her solo show at Noah Klink, Berlin, the artist hones in on the ways labour is made invisible

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The Good and the Bad of American Techno-Utopianism

Jonathan T.D. NeilBook ReviewsArtReview24 April 2025

The historian and critic Eva Díaz’s new book, ‘After Spaceship Earth’, follows R. Buckminster Fuller and how his legacy has shaped contemporary art

Just Eat: The Artworld’s Strange Relationship With Food

Chris Fite-WassilakOpinionArtReview24 April 2025

Culinary experiences in the artworld are on the rise, but why does food need to be framed as ‘art’ in order to be considered something special?

Michael Wilkinson’s Sterile Still Lives

Gabriel Levine BrislinReviewsArtReview24 April 2025

The artist’s take on the traditional Flemish genre paints an eerie portrait of contemporary domestic space

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

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com24 April 2025

The latest announcement: Ei Arakawa-Nash will represent Japan

Noah Davis’s Mythical Social Realism

J.J. CharlesworthReviewsArtReview23 April 2025

The late artist’s painting, on show at the Barbican, positions ordinary people and ordinary life as a thing to be cherished

Like Us, But Not: Body Horror is Back

Tom SeymourOpinionArtReview23 April 2025

The subgenre’s recent revival in film and art suggests that the human isn’t what it used to be

Ho Tzu Nyen to direct Gwangju Biennale

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com23 April 2025

The 16th Gwangju Biennale will open in September 2026

Turner Prize 2025 shortlist announced

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com23 April 2025

Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa will compete for the prize

Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo, Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything, Sharjah Biennial 16, 2025. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac. Installation view: Sharjah Biennial 16, Al Hamriya Studios, Sharjah, 2025. Photo: Danko Stjepanovic

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