David Frazier

So why should we want a paradigm of Asian art anyway?

Apichatpong Weerasethakul + Chai Siris, “Sunshower”, 2017. Mixed media. Installation view: SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, The National Art Center, Tokyo / Mori Art Museum, 2017. Photo: Kioku Keizo. Photo courtesy: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

David Frazier charts the growth of inter-Asian dialogue and networks in the art world amidst the fissures of globalization and a still-dominant Western paradigm for viewing art.

The Divisive Moment

After 70 years, Henri Cartier-Bresson almost goes back to China

“Celebrations for the 9th anniversary of the People’s Republic”, Beijing, 1 October 1958

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s landmark photographs of the final days of the Chinese Civil War were exhibited at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2020. A Beijing showing planned for 2021 was cancelled due to COVID-19. David Frazier writes about the exhibition's reception in Taiwan, speculates on how it might have been received in Beijing, and examines its complicated historical and political context.