Ocula Feature At Art Taipei, Galleries Adapt to Regional Politics By Sam Gaskin, Tapiei The longest-running art fair in Asia returned to Taipei's World Trade Center for its 26th edition in October.
Ocula Feature Daido Moriyama: The Erotics of Photography By Tianyuan Deng, Tokyo Daido Moriyama is one of the most influential avantgarde photographers to emerge out of postwar Japan.
Ocula Feature Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection By Jane O’Sullivan, Sydney Yang Zhichao’s Chinese Bible is both unyieldingly monumental and humble. In the latest presentation of the work in Sydney, all 3,000 of the diaries he has collected from Beijing’s fleamarkets are placed in neat rows on a large, rectangular plinth. Dated from 1949 to 1999 they record 50 turbulent years in China’s history....
Ocula Conversation Gene Sherman & Suhanya Raffel By Jane O'Sullivan, Sydney When Australian collectors and philanthropists Gene and Brian Sherman moved from South Africa to Australia in 1976, Gene says they instantly recognised a “buzz about Asia” that they weren’t expecting. As an academic teaching French literature, the push towards Asian languages also put her out of a job. “I went...
