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

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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....

Field Trip To The Studio of Artist and Archivist Koh Nguang How

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On 13 October 2014, students of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme made a field trip to the Centre for Contemporary Art, Gillman Barracks, where Koh Nguang How has been invited to do his residency. Koh has the largest repository of archival materials relating to Singapore art dating to the 1950s. These materials include newspapers, exhibition catalogues, ephemera, audio recordings and photographs. Read more....

Field Trip to S. Sudjojono: Lives in Pictures exhibition, 15 February 2014, ADM Gallery

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Sudjojono was one of Indonesia’s leading artists of the post-war period. A nationalist at heart, he helped the nationalist forces under Sukarno stir anti-Dutch sentiments by propagating images and producing artworks that advanced the revolutionary cause. An expressionist and realist, he rejected the idealised Mooi Indie (Beautiful Indies) landscapes that were painted by his fellow Indonesian artists Read more....