Spectrum of Art Sensibilities: Critical Reflections on the Global Turn in Contemporary Art

Category - annual lecture 2015
Noted Indonesian art critic and curator Jim Supangkat will deliver the fourth MA Asian Art Histories Annual Lecture on 25 March 2015. Distinguished Speaker : Jim Supangkat Moderator : Professor Yvonne Spielmann Wed 25 March 2015 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 Read more....

New Silk Roads: Painting Beyond Borders

Category - exhibitions
The exhibition New Silk Roads: Painting Beyond Borders, to be held from 21 to 27 April 2015 at the ION Art Gallery, ION Orchard, will be ground-breaking: for the first time in Singapore, modern and contemporary painting from the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will feature in a major show centering upon the region’s artists. Curated by Sally J. Clarke, Co-Founder Read more....

The Roving Eye: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia

Category - exhibitions
18 September 2014-4 January 2015, ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul, Turkey The Roving Eye: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia is a group exhibition that presents more than 40 works by 36 of Southeast Asia's most innovative contemporary artists from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia. As well as introducing forms, materials, conceptual methodologies, Read more....

New Silk Roads: Painting Beyond Borders

Category - essays and articles
by Rachel Choo The ancient Silk Road – actually a network of established roads, unkempt pathways and evanescent desert trails – conducted goods, ideas, adventurers, spies, diplomats and armies from China, across the Eurasian continent to India, the Mideast and Europe, and back. The road has become a fabled metaphor for cosmopolitan wayfaring and exchange, despite the fact that it was also a Read more....