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....

MA Asian Art Histories Class Conducted In The National Gallery, Singapore

Category - local study trips
On 4th March 2016, The MA Asian Art Histories students had their class at the National Gallery Singapore as part of the "Exhibitions and the Shaping of Art Histories in Asia" module. The class was conducted by Iola Lenzi, a specialist, writer and curator in Southeast Asian contemporary art. After the lecture, Iola brought the class to view and discuss selected works in relation to the lecture on conceptualism Read more....

Study Trip to New Delhi – 7-12 December 2015

Category - overseas study trips
by Christiaan Haridas, Hsu Chin Miao and Yeow Ju Li There was no better place to begin our trip and introduction to Indian art history than a visit to the National Museum, New Delhi, where we were awed by the richness of the Indus Valley civilisation as seen through its collection of Harrapan, Mauryan and Buddhist artefacts, and miniature paintings (Fig. 1). There, we learnt about the iconography Read more....

INTERLACE: Three Artists in the Cambodian Diaspora

Category - exhibitions
REV | ACTION: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia Dates: June 10 – 30, 2016 Venues: inCube Arts SPACE, 314 West 52nd St., #1 New York, NY 10019, USA INTERLACE: Three Artists in the Cambodian Diaspora looks at the artistic practice of Anida Yoeu Ali, Amy Lee Sanford and LinDa Saphan, three female artists of the same generation who grew up as refugees in foreign countries, invested with the Read more....

REV | ACTION: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia

Category - exhibitions
REV | ACTION: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia Dates: October 15 to November 14, 2015 Venues: Sundaram Tagore Galleries, 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 and 1100 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10028 This exhibition is curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani. Loredana is an alumni of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme Read more....