November 2010
Cover news:
Higher and Higher auction prices in Hong Kong Sales
Profile: the painter Chitra Ganesh. Post Doi Moi Photography in Saigon. The Vietnamese artist Pham Luan. The rise of the contemporary international art fair. The reopening of the Cairo Museum of Islamic Art. Politics and history in recent Southeast Asian painting. Who’s Who of contemporary galleries in Mumbai. Nam Jun Paik exhibition in Dusseldorf and Liverpool, Natee Utarit in Singapore, Xu Bin’gs Tobacco Project, Hai Bo and Fiona Tan in Washington DC, Odani Motohiko in Tokyo, Burmese art in Thailand. Contemporary Ink Painting in London. Japanese contemporary ceramics in New York. Islamic Arts Diary.
Fair Trade
ART FAIRS IN the Islamic world are growing faster than the Islamic content. There is now a plethora of fairs that have sprung up in all sorts of unexpected places over the past decade. As far ...
Locarno Film Festival 2011
THE INTERNATIONAL FILM Festival in Locarno has long been considered an insider’s film festival. Screening films from different horizons has always positioned Locarno as the largest of...
Nam June Paik
IN CONJUNCTION WITH the various exhibitions of the Quadriennale in Düsseldorf, the Museum Kunst Palast presents in cooperation with the Tate Liverpool, where it will be shown in December ...
Pham Luan
BOLD DAUBS OF paint in muted shades with strong, flat patches of white characterise the urban scenes of Vietnamese artist Pham Luan. His use of powerful, primitive brush strokes with minimal d...
Politics and History in Recent Southeast Asian Contemporary Art
SINGAPORE IS NOT known for socio-political art, either that of others, or the homegrown variety. Yet much of the most compelling contemporary art coming out of Southeast Asia in recent decades...
Politics of the Pink Man in the post-Thaksin Era: Manit Sriwanichpoom
THE MOST WELL respected Thai photographer of his generation, Manit Sriwanichpoom (b. 1961; Bangkok) has often focused his photographic practice on the socio-political issues that affect his co...
Profile: Shirley Tse
SHIRLEY TSE is an artist whose work pushes conceptual boundaries and calls attention to the artificial sense of today’s society, and the idea of mobility across borders, cultures, and ge...
