by Usha Das
“Why not ask again?” This was the curatorial theme of the 11th Shanghai Biennale which the 2016 cohort of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme students were privileged to attend as part of our overseas study trip. This was indeed a fitting question as it brought to the fore issues which we had covered in the classroom during the very first semester of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme. Read more.... Study trip to Shanghai – 12 to 16 December 2016
Category - overseas study trips
by Usha Das
“Why not ask again?” This was the curatorial theme of the 11th Shanghai Biennale which the 2016 cohort of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme students were privileged to attend as part of our overseas study trip. This was indeed a fitting question as it brought to the fore issues which we had covered in the classroom during the very first semester of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme. Read more.... 
Shaping the Early Discourse of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art: Japan, Australia and Singapore
Date: Monday, 22nd February 2016
Time: 7pm-9pm
Venue: Block F, Room 202, LASALLE College of the Arts
Synopsis:
This forum is intended to be a conversation between three curators from Japan, Australia and Singapore who were involved in exhibitions that had influenced and shaped the early discourse 
Professor David Clarke will deliver the 5th MA Asian Art Histories Annual Lecture on 10th March 2016
Distinguished Speaker : Professor David Clarke
Thursday 10th March 2016
7.00pm-9.00pm
Block F Level 2 #F202
LASALLE College of the Arts
1 McNally Street
Free admission (on a first-come first-served basis)
RSVP: wulandani.dirgantoro@lasalle.edu.sg
A reception will follow
There 
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 
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