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....

New Museums to Give Thai Contemporary Art A Boost

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Two new museums of contemporary art are set to give the Thai contemporary art scene a much-needed boost. Although Thai contemporary artists have established themselves globally, contemporary art museums are almost non-existent and engaging local audiences remain a challenge. http://asiancorrespondent.com/133327/two-new-museums-set-to-boost-contemporary-art-in-thailand/ Read more....

New Museum Raises Questions about Authenticity of Indonesian Collector’s Works

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In 2012, celebrated Indonesian art collector Oei Hong Djien, affectionately known as OHD, opened the third wing of his museum in Magelang, Central Java. Since it opened, there has been allegations that some of the works on display are forgeries of the paintings of Indonesian masters such as Affandi, Hendra Gunawan and S. Sudjojono. An association made up of collectors called the Indonesian Art Lovers Read more....

Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art

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The Getty Foundation has funded a research programme developed by the University of Sydney’s The Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture in conjunction with regional partners. Titled “Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art”, the programme brings together early career scholars from Australia and Southeast Asia to pursue independent research and chart new methodological Read more....

Taipei Study Trip – Delving Into Relational Aesthetics

Category - overseas study trips
by Stephanie Xatart and Samantha Segar The much anticipated study trip of the Asian Art Histories 2014/15 Master’s Programme took us to Taipei, Taiwan. The trip was from 9 Dec to 13 Dec 2014. There we were delighted to explore many facets of Taipei’s vibrant and edgy art scene. The first stage of our cultural journey took us to the Taipei Biennale where we attempted to come to terms with Read more....