Square Words, Round Paradigms: Contemporary Calligraphy in China
By Eric Wear
The phenomenon of the 1979 Democracy Wall in Beijing now seems surreal, considering the vast social and economic changes that have taken place in China since then. But there, for a brief period, citizens gathered to read and comment upon layers of large posters painted in bold ink on all kinds of scrap and newspaper, each poster calling for... [more]

Architecture in Script: From Without Boundary to Archive Fever
By Gregory Galligan
When “Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking” (see AAP 49) opened in early 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition seemingly came and went on the New York art calendar. Comprising 15 artists living in the US and Europe with origins in Islamic Africa, West and South Asia, as well as... [more]

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries: Flash-Flood
By Lauren Cornell
In a text-based Flash animation entitled ARTIST’S STATEMENT NO: 45,730,944: THE PERFECT ARTISTIC WEBSITE (1999-2003) by Seoul-based collaborative YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (YHCHI), the work’s imagined protagonist reflects on the Internet as a space for... [more]

Yoko Ono: The Artist in Her Unfinished Avant-Garden
By HG Masters
The background of Yoko Ono’s MySpace page is a photograph of an open window overlooking the treetops in New York’s Central Park on a foggy early autumn day. Ono launched her online profile in September 2007 as part of a publicity campaign for her monumental Imagine Peace Tower (2007- ), a column of light directed into the night sky in Reykjavik, Iceland, for... [more]