Born in Barbados in 1959, Ashley Bickerton had a peripatetic childhood across four continents, from Guyana to Ghana, on to the Balearic Islands and England, then finally Hawaii. His upbringing followed the career of his Anglo-American father, the eminent linguist Derek Bickerton, who researched creole languages and theorised on the formation of human language. >> Read more
Echoes of the transgressive works of the early 2000s resound in the ceramics practice of Liu Xi (b.1986, Zibo, Shandong). Liu’s frank exploration of gender and sexuality is courageous. >> Read more
Emami Art, the contemporary art gallery at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC) is hosting ‘The Mirror Sees Best in the Dark’, a solo exhibition by one of India’s eminent artists, Mr. Bose Krishnamachari. >> Read more
Samdani Art Foundation announces Seismic Movements: Dhaka Art Summit 2020, the fifth edition of the bi-annual research and exhibition platform focused on art and architecture connected to South Asia, to be held from 7 - 15 February 2020 in the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. >> Read more
The last two decades of precipitous change have provided much grist for recent exhibitions, artist talks, and essays. The pre-eminence of digital technologies in society, the unpredictable advances in biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, and irreversible environmental degradation encapsulated under the banner of the Anthropocene all speak to a certain disquiet towards unproblematic notions of progress. >> Read more