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In the past, Frieze has meant a colorful cocktail that might include plasticine works alongside something by Pipilotti Rist or Tobias Rehberger…
 

While perhaps satisfying the demands of experienced collectors for a few quality works, it also offers a chance for entry-level collectors and ordinary viewers. With public sculptures in the shape of Transformers, rhinoceroses, and such like, it is like any other tourist attraction—a place of entertainment for the public over the May Day break…

Art Basel Hong Kong is an annual chance to visit galleries whose programs don’t always reach beyond the region.

“It’s relaxing,” some visitors were heard to remark of the atmosphere, which included pet dogs and coffee sold from a trestle table to the tune of a buzzing generator.
 
 

Sometimes the local Singaporean art scene can be overlooked, not least because the major galleries in Singapore tend to be foreign. FOST Gallery is an exception.

To its fans, it is simply STPI., one of the genuine heroines of the East Asia art scene. And yes, though blessed with super powers, it has to fight to be free and, as in so many superhero stories, that often means nervous government people who don’t quite understand how special it is.

We begin this series of articles on South East Asia visiting Richard Koh, whose eponymous gallery in Kuala Lumpur is Malaysia’s most influential, representing artists throughout the region, including Haffendi Anuar, Justin Lim Natee Utarit, and Pattana Chuenmana.

when artists translate philosophical ideas into visual icons and then claim them as ink art without due reflection, the so-called “Eastern spirit”—embodying Confucian, Taoist, Buddhist ideas and what not—would inevitably become a mere means to an end…