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 photographs of the last days of the Chinese Civil War were exhibited at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in late 2020. The exhibition was scheduled to be held in Beijing in 2021 but was canceled due to COVID-19. David Frazier writes about the exhibition and its complicated surrounding context.