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This symposium asks how periodicals in Asia across the twentieth century have fostered conversations about art and emergent forms of visuality. We are interested in how periodicals constitute genealogies of language and nomenclatures around the modern, the contemporary, the indigenous, the nation, arts and crafts, and tradition. >> Read more

The Singapore-based artist Ho Tzu Nyen will present his multimedia project ‘The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia, Vol. 1: G for Ghost(writers)’. Developed during his AAA residency, the installation introduces an interactive internet platform created in collaboration with Pad.ma, Yasuhiro Morinaga, and Bani Haykal. >> Read more

Grainy, velvety black photocopies of famous faces – portraits by Jan Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Ingres, Artemisia Gentileschi and others from the western art historical canon – were arranged in rows or grids. They gazed out from behind layers of acrylic paint, or wax that had been partially scraped back. >> Read more

by Quyen Hoang Will Thurman ‘Life Paintings, Volume 1: 2015-2020’ Galerie Quỳnh (118 Đường Nguyễn Văn Thủ, Đa Kao, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) Oct. 20­ – Dec.12, 2020 In this fervent age of over-exposure on social media, mystery is a rare commodity. Will Thurman’s solo exhibition presents an intriguing scenario by requesting its visitors to leave their phones […] >> Read more

So I am walking in, wandering through this dimly lit, shack-like choral site, a sort of khôrā (χώρα), the territory outside the polis also rooted in it as an invisible receptacle, a housing house. >> Read more

William and Dorothy Wordsworth moved to Alfoxden in Somerset in 1797 to be near Coleridge, then living at Nether Stowey. When the three of them took to going for walks in the surrounding country (sometimes, God forbid, at nightfall to see the stars), the locals were suspicious. >> Read more

Will any large exhibition or art fair take place in September. Even if they do, will anyone go? Will US collectors fly to Basel? Will they risk a sudden 2-week quarantine? Even if they do, will they still feel like spending? Will they still have anything to spend even? >> Read more

During the inauguration of the 14th edition of the art fair Contemporary Istanbul, chairman Ali Güreli was also enthusiastically stressing the importance of art and culture in Turkey with the statement: “The artistic and cultural dimension needs to be reinforced at all times”. >> Read more

303 Gallery: 35 Years is a new hardcover publication chronicling the story of the gallery from >> 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