By Kendall Fosse and Aparupa Saha
At the beginning of the academic year, when the cohort (MAAAH batch of 2026) was told that a study trip to Fukuoka, Japan was planned for the next semester, all of us immediately wanted to skip everything in between and teleport ourselves to that moment right away. We knew it was going to be a memorable trip, and it fully lived up to expectations. While viewing Read more.... MA Asian Art Histories 2026 Study Trip to Fukuoka, Japan
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By Kendall Fosse and Aparupa Saha
At the beginning of the academic year, when the cohort (MAAAH batch of 2026) was told that a study trip to Fukuoka, Japan was planned for the next semester, all of us immediately wanted to skip everything in between and teleport ourselves to that moment right away. We knew it was going to be a memorable trip, and it fully lived up to expectations. While viewing Read more.... 
This forum explores the doctoral journeys of three alumni from LASALLE’s MA Asian Art Histories programme and illuminate their transition from MA studies to PhD research.
Ramesh Ramakrishnan, Eunice Lacaste and Akshatha Ranganrajan will reflect on research challenges such as fieldwork complexities, linguistic barriers and archival access, alongside the practical realities of navigating application 
This reflection on region departs from an earlier essay by speaker Associate Professor Pamela Nguyen Corey titled “Metaphor as Method: Curating Regionalism in Mainland Southeast Asia” (2013), which examined controversies around the curatorial use of geographical metaphors (such as the Mekong and the Ho Chi Minh Trail) to promote contemporary artists and foster artistic collaboration in mainland 
When does art becomes difficult? Indeed, art becomes “artistically meaningful” when it is brought to face and intervene in the world. In other words, art can help reveal the difficulty of living in the world. But this is by definition a difficult task. Artists need to make sure that the way to reveal the difficulty in life is “artistic” – critical, imaginative and visionary, instead of being 
Art and Action is an international art history conference that critically examines the development of art practices in Southeast Asia from the 1970s to the present. It focuses on the role of artists and artworks as social conduits, with the aim of generating discourses specific to the contexts and conditions of the region.
New modes of artistic production have come to the fore in Southeast Asia