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

Badlands Unlimited, $19.99 (hardcover)
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Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Portobello Books, £12.99 (softcover)
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Topology of Violence, by Byung-Chul Han

Translated by Amanda DeMarco, The MIT Press, £14.99/$19.95 (softcover)
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‘The Coin’ by Yasmin Zaher, Reviewed

Nirmala DeviBook ReviewsArtReview22 November 2024

The author’s striking debut novel defies our expectations of what it means to be Palestinian

Satoshi Kawata in the Suburbs

Adeline ChiaReviewsArtReview Asia22 November 2024

Kawata’s frescoes explore the outer reaches of urban life, their mysterious agency and ability to colonise

What Does ‘Underrepresented’ Really Mean?

Daniel TrillingOpinionartreview.com22 November 2024

An exhibition on marginalised labour reveals how the power to represent oneself matters more than simply being seen

Rotterdam gets new museum dedicated to art and migration

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com22 November 2024

Fenix will be located in the Dutch city’s harbour, in a 16,000 sqm warehouse restored by MAD Architects

Maurizio Cattelan’s banana sells for $6.2 million

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com21 November 2024

‘In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience’, its new owner said

6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale curators announced

ArtReviewNewsartreview.com21 November 2024

Nikhil Chopra and HH Art Spaces will lead the biennale, which opens on 12 December 2025

The Space Between, site-specific installation by Brook Andrew at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018. Image courtesy of Kochi-Muziris Biennale

ICA Boston picks new director

ArtReviewNews21 November 2024

Nora Burnett Abrams will begin on 1 May 2025

Jen Liu in the Cloud

Aaina BhargavaReviewsArtReview Asia21 November 2024

From working as an AI trainer to reanimating Microsoft’s Clippy, Liu exposes the robotic and human labour behind the capitalist system on which the world runs

Red Flags in Hong Kong

Ilaria Maria SalaOpinionArtReview Asia21 November 2024

As Hong Kong gets swept up in anniversary celebrations for the People’s Republic of China, recent museum and gallery programming reveals the battle for the region’s identity

‘There are Rivers in the Sky’ by Elif Shafak, Reviewed

Deepa BhasthiBook ReviewsArtReview Asia20 November 2024

Shafak’s breathless latest follows the theory that water retains memories from all the forms it has ever taken

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani, Portobello Books, £9.99 (softcover)Read the review here

University of Washington Press, $30/£19.50 (softcover)Read the review here

Badlands Unlimited, $19.99 (hardcover)Read the review here

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Portobello Books, £12.99 (softcover)Read the review here

Translated by Amanda DeMarco, The MIT Press, £14.99/$19.95 (softcover)Read the review here

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani, Portobello Books, £9.99 (softcover)
Read the review here

University of Washington Press, $30/£19.50 (softcover)
Read the review here

Badlands Unlimited, $19.99 (hardcover)
Read the review here

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Portobello Books, £12.99 (softcover)
Read the review here

Translated by Amanda DeMarco, The MIT Press, £14.99/$19.95 (softcover)
Read the review here