{"id":68038,"date":"2016-11-13T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68038"},"modified":"2016-11-08T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:50:22","slug":"shahzia-sikander-apparatus-of-power-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68038","title":{"rendered":"Shahzia Sikander: Apparatus of Power Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, November 13 06:30pm
\nAsia Society
\n725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
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Shahzia Sikander: Apparatus of Power (Hong Kong: Asia Society, 2016)
\nClaire Brandon, ed. with essays by Ayad Akhtar, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nick Robins, John Seyller, Shahzia Sikander, Ashley Nga-sai Wu<\/p>\n

Shahzia Sikander: Apparatus of Power is published by the Asia Society on the occasion of Shahzia Sikander\u2019s 2016 solo exhibition at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center. Edited by the exhibition\u2019s curator, Claire Brandon, the book is 332 pages long with over 100 color plates. It is the most comprehensive publication on the artist to date. The catalogue includes a text by Brandon as well as contributions by Nick Robins, author of The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Pluto Press, 2012); art historian John Seyller, a specialist in miniature painting and author of Pahari Paintings in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art (Hyderabad, 2014); Ayad Akhtar, winner of the Pulitzer-Prize for his play Disgraced (2012); Ashley Nga-sai Wu, assistant curator at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center; and Serpentine co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and author of Ways of Curating (Farber & Farber, 2014). It also includes an artist statement by Sikander in which she reflects upon her practice since the late 1980s. Graphic design by With Projects in New York and Zero and UBC in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

FREE ADMISSION! http:\/\/asiasociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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