A Review of Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond

Category - exhibition reviews
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 Read more....

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

Category - local study trips
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....

Study Trip to New Delhi – 7-12 December 2015

Category - overseas study trips
by Christiaan Haridas, Hsu Chin Miao and Yeow Ju Li There was no better place to begin our trip and introduction to Indian art history than a visit to the National Museum, New Delhi, where we were awed by the richness of the Indus Valley civilisation as seen through its collection of Harrapan, Mauryan and Buddhist artefacts, and miniature paintings (Fig. 1). There, we learnt about the iconography Read more....

Conceptual Strategies in Southeast Asian Art : A Local narrative

Category - essays and articles
by Iola Lenzi - Introduction In his review of the Southeast Asian art exhibition of 2010 Making History Tony Godfrey, the author of Conceptual Art, assesses works by Alwin Reamillo (b.1964), Mella Jaarsma (b.1960), Vasan Sitthiket (b.1957),Tang Da Wu (b.1943), Nge Lay (b.1979), Green Zeng (b.1972), and Bui Cong Khanh (b.1972) as difficult to read, “... its (the exhibition’s) weakness is the Read more....

Spectrum of Art Sensibilities: Critical Reflections on the Global Turn in Contemporary Art

Category - annual lecture 2015
Noted Indonesian art critic and curator Jim Supangkat will deliver the fourth MA Asian Art Histories Annual Lecture on 25 March 2015. Distinguished Speaker : Jim Supangkat Moderator : Professor Yvonne Spielmann Wed 25 March 2015 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 Read more....