Encountering Alterity: Linguistic Opacity in Visual Art

Category - annual lecture 2016
Professor David Clarke will deliver the 5th MA Asian Art Histories Annual Lecture on 10th March 2016 Distinguished Speaker : Professor David Clarke Thursday 10th March 2016 7.00pm-9.00pm Block F Level 2 #F202 LASALLE College of the Arts 1 McNally Street Free admission (on a first-come first-served basis) RSVP: wulandani.dirgantoro@lasalle.edu.sg A reception will follow There Read more....

Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast

Category - exhibitions
Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Dates: August 21 – September 21, 2016 Venues: Cemeti Art House, Ruang MES 56, and Kedai Kebun, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia is an exhibition organised by Bangkok Art and Culture centre in collaboration with three Southeast Asian curators, Iola Lenzi, Agung Hujanitkajennong, Read more....

Masters of Arts Asian Art Histories

Category - admission
The MA in Asian Art Histories is the first taught MA Programme in any tertiary institution to focus on Asian modern and contemporary art histories. While Asian art history programmes traditionally focus on the classical periods or grand traditions, the LASALLE Programme gives students the opportunity to lead original research in largely underexplored fields, investigate recently Read more....

MA Asian Art Histories Alumni Night 2016

Category - alumni night
There was a good turnout for the Alumni Night which was held at Lower Case café and attended by both alumni and current students. In attendance was Barbra Gan (President, Strategic Developments) and Alvan Tan (Director, Advancement). Jeffrey Say, Programme Leader of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme gave a speech in which he said that the Programme’s alumni has been making a discernible impact Read more....

A Review of Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond

Category - exhibition reviews
by Luke Chua The first international exhibition of the National Gallery Singapore (NGS), titled Reframing Modernism, rides on the huge waves generated by the opening of the Gallery as one of the largest visual art museums in the region in November 2015. The exhibition aim is impressive: to reframe the understanding of modernism which has been built by decades of art historical scholarship. While Read more....