Airplanes and Parachutes: A Jonathan Napack Anthology (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)

It's hard to resist this striking book with its fuzzy white fabric cover and simple line drawings - a loving tribute to the late writer Jonathan Napack. Napack, an expert in contemporary Asian art, died in 2007 in Hong Kong at age 39. He was the first New York art critic to relocate to Asia, where his writing on contemporary Asian art and culture was often the first account of such trends to be published in magazines and newspapers such as The International Herald Tribune, The Art Newspaper, and Art in America. This anthology of his writing was published posthumously to honor him and to ''give Jonathan's inner circle one last chance to collaborate in his memory,'' as writer Philip Tinari explains in the introduction. An intriguing insert collects memories of Napack from colleagues and friends such as Ai Weiwei, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cao Fei, and Hou Hanru.