ArtReview Asia Magazine Summer 2025 Back Issue

In the Summer issue of ArtReview Asia, Indian artist Shilpa Gupta’s 2006 work There is No Border Here has been adapted across eight editions of the magazine’s cover, introducing a feature by Mark Rappolt that focuses on the ways in which Gupta’s oeuvre frames resistance to division, categorisation, segregation and other forms of state violence; Hilaria Maria Sala, digesting research into Sri Lanka’s national flower, unpacks how a waterlily came to be so freighted with meaning; Jamie Sutcliffe looks at what became of Masamune Shirow, ‘one of the most influential artists you don’t know’; and Max Crosbie-Jones marvels at an ambitious attempt to restore the comprehensively destroyed life work of Indonesian filmmaker Bachtiar Siagian. Also in the Summer issue: a 1926 lecture by Rabindranath Tagore, annotated by ArtReview Asia; an interview with Shimabuku; how to say goodbye to China’s zombie museums; and why an emotionally resonant visual tradition is essential to the success of a political movement. Plus exhibition and book reviews, and who gets to define ‘liminal’.