by Rachel Choo
The ancient Silk Road – actually a network of established roads, unkempt pathways and evanescent desert trails – conducted goods, ideas, adventurers, spies, diplomats and armies from China, across the Eurasian continent to India, the Mideast and Europe, and back. The road has become a fabled metaphor for cosmopolitan wayfaring and exchange, despite the fact that it was also a Read more.... New Silk Roads: Painting Beyond Borders
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by Rachel Choo
The ancient Silk Road – actually a network of established roads, unkempt pathways and evanescent desert trails – conducted goods, ideas, adventurers, spies, diplomats and armies from China, across the Eurasian continent to India, the Mideast and Europe, and back. The road has become a fabled metaphor for cosmopolitan wayfaring and exchange, despite the fact that it was also a Read more.... 
by Stephanie Xatart and Samantha Segar
The much anticipated study trip of the Asian Art Histories 2014/15 Master’s Programme took us to Taipei, Taiwan. The trip was from 9 Dec to 13 Dec 2014.
There we were delighted to explore many facets of Taipei’s vibrant and edgy art scene. The first stage of our cultural journey took us to the Taipei Biennale where we attempted to come to terms with 
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. 
Date: Monday, 7th September 2015
Time: 7pm-9pm
Venue: Block F, Room 201, LASALLE College of the Arts
Synopsis:
The Young Art Historians Forum presented by the MA Asian Art Histories Programme is a public forum where three early career researchers will present their latest research project on modern and contemporary art histories in Southeast Asia. The three presenters are:
Clare 
by Iola Lenzi
In his latest novel Map of the invisible World, Malaysian author Tash Aw discusses selective amnesia in the context of Indonesian history. One of his protagonists notes that Europeans remember bad things, while Asians forget them-as a way of erasing pain-, concluding that “…to be ignorant of one’s true history is to live in a void…where you do not really exist…”. Thai art