ArtReview & ArtReview Asia

ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines. Founded in 1949, it is dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach. Published nine times a year, the magazine features a mixture of criticism, reviews, previews, opinion, reportage and specially commissioned artworks, and offers one of the most established, in-depth and intimate portraits of international contemporary art in all its shapes and forms. In 2013 ArtReview was joined by its sister magazine ArtReview Asia, now published four times a year, which brings a fresh and exciting new voice to the dynamic and fast-changing art scenes of the Asia region, as well as covering Asian art presented outside of the region.

The ArtReview archive consists of all issues going back to 2006, when the title was relaunched in its present form, as well as all issues of ArtReview Asia from its first issue in 2013. Together, the two titles provide an invaluable resource for those interested in the current era of contemporary art; the ArtReview archive is an indispensable reference for all art students, art historians and other humanities researchers, as well as offering an independent and first-hand research tool for professionals working in galleries, museums and institutions.

In the March issue of ArtReview, Amber Husain wonders why there is a tendency to sentimentalise Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield, an artwork often cited – misguidedly – as a model for contemporary urban greening developments in the service of gentrification. Tyler Coburn reports on an artist collective’s attempt to define contemporary art in Kyrgyzstan through performance, wordplay, tradition and politics. Adeline Chia discusses the ‘flow’ of Pratchaya Phinthong’s work and its transformative possibilities in people, objects and relationships. Camille Georgeson-Usher basks in Tanya Lukin Linklater’s atmospheric choreographies. And Rachel M. Tang discovers how Indigenous artist Kite translates dreams, performance and sound into datasets. ArtReview revisits Gabriel García Márquez’s 1982 Nobel Prize acceptance speech highlighting Europe’s and the United States’s double standard in celebrating Latin American cultural output while undermining its political autonomy. Plus: Michelle Santiago Cortés explores the tech-bro longevity complex, Ilaria Maria Sala considers the costs of the development of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen-bordering Northern Metropolis and Rosanna McLaughlin reads Tarot through the ages; followed by two dozen international exhibition and book reviews, as well as an exclusive comic from Bhanu Pratap.