In 2010, LASALLE launched its MA Asian Art Histories programme, the world’s first MA programme to focus on Asian modern and contemporary art histories. 15 years strong in 2024, the programme continues to champion a focus on Asian modern and contemporary art histories, nurturing a nuanced and impactful appreciation of art from Asia and a diverse community of scholars who seek to make a difference.
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In 2010, LASALLE launched its MA Asian Art Histories programme, the world’s first MA programme to focus on Asian modern and contemporary art histories. 15 years strong in 2024, the programme continues to champion a focus on Asian modern and contemporary art histories, nurturing a nuanced and impactful appreciation of art from Asia and a diverse community of scholars who seek to make a difference.
To Read more.... 
This Postgraduate Research Forum, co-organised by LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore (LASALLE), University of the Arts Singapore, and the University of Bristol (UoB), will feature presentations from students enrolled in MAs and PhDs in the History of Art department at the University of Bristol and recent graduates from the MA Asian Art Histories programme at LASALLE I University of the Arts Singapore.
In December 2023, the MA Asian Art Histories cohort embarked on the first study trip outside of Southeast Asia since the beginning of the pandemic, travelling to Hong Kong to take advantage of the multitude of exhibitions that were being held at several major institutions. These exhibitions featured art from Asia as well as from the West.
On our second day in Hong Kong, we visited M+, Asia’s 
With the reopening of borders after a long COVID-19 hiatus, the choices available to our cohort were significantly greater than those of the past two years. Ultimately, the decision was made to travel to Bangkok, Thailand, to coincide with the Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB). The theme for this edition of the BAB, Chaos:Calm, is a fitting response to the uncertainty we experienced in the last two years. 
Comprising the regions that more than 80% of the world call home, Afro Asia came to the political fore in the mid-1950s, calling for accelerated decolonization on the one hand and rejecting Cold War polarization on the other. Building on this history, this talk mobilizes Afro Asia as an epistemological grounds for rethinking geographical, social, and aesthetic worlds primarily through the worlds Black