Current Affairs
Traveling Without Moving
By Xhingyu Chen

From his early days of flailing dead cats to his recent live reenactment of South African photojournalist Kevin Carter’s iconic and desperately tragic 1993 image of a vulture eyeing a starving child in the Sudan, 32-year-old Shanghai-based artist Xu Zhen has had a penchant for controversial subject matter. [more]

EDITOR’S LETTER
By Elaine W. Ng

Every new year cultural pundits inundate the media with a stream of forecasts that predict where art and society are going, and while ArtAsiaPacific avowedly anticipates the styles, themes and critical discussions in art for the decade to come, we greet 2010 with a longer view, focusing on the stability offered by a measured perspective, the merits of historical awareness and decisive re-evaluations of many of the artists and movements that have become familiar over the years. In this issue, AAP looks at a number of bold-name cultural figures and supposedly definitive histories that warrant reconsideration. [more]