6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Gallery of Modern Art/Queensland Art Gallery
Since 1993, the Queensland Art Gallery’s Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art has been the most important art show regularly held in Australia. With this latest version, it has become the best. Installed in the Queensland Art Gallery and the cavernous spaces of the new Gallery of Modern Art on the banks of the Brisbane River, the Sixth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, or APT6, is a grandiose aesthetic statement that makes it clear that Asian art has definitively arrived—but, paradoxically, only because it is now indistinguishable from Western art and because, perhaps, no one