Hong Kong Study Trip : Under the Surface – 15 to 19 December 2013

Category - overseas study trips
by Marie-Pierre Mol When the decision was taken to go to Hong Kong for the study trip, my classmates and I were looking forward having a good time in a city that we had already previously explored. However, to our pleasant surprise, this study trip was an opportunity to discover unexplored cultural territories. In Hong Kong, like in Singapore, land is scarce and thus expensive, and exhibition spaces Read more....

Faith and Fairy Tales

Category - exhibitions
Faith and Fairy Tales 14 March – 17 April 2014, ADM Gallery, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore This exhibition is curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani, who graduated from the Asian Art Histories Programme in 2011. Loredana is an independent art curator. Currently based in Singapore, her curatorial work focuses primarily on young and emerging Read more....

Dr Caroline Turner – Art and Ethical Responsibility: Contemporary Asian Contexts

Category - annual lecture 2014
Pioneering scholar on Southeast Asian contemporary art Dr Caroline Turner will deliver the third MA Asian Art Histories Annual Lecture on 26 March 2014. Art and Ethical Responsibility: Contemporary Asian Contexts Distinguished Speaker : Dr Caroline Turner Moderator : Iola Lenzi Wed: 26 March 2014 7.00pm-9.00pm Block F Level 2 #F202 LASALLE College of the Arts 1 McNally Street Free Read more....

A Review of Between Here and Nanyang: Marco Hsu’s A Brief History of Malayan Art

Category - exhibition reviews
Between Here and Nanyang is an exhibition in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Marco Hsu’s A Brief History of Malayan Art and is intended to coincide with Singapore’s fifty years of independence in 2015. The text seeks to break away from the view that Malaya is a cultural desert, to highlight the vibrancy of Malayan art and define the Malayan cultural identity. Read more....