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In the 1956 film adaptation of composer duo Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I (1951), the king dies just before the final curtain.

The second edition of Taipei Dangdai concluded on 19 January 2020 with the participation of 99 galleries from across the globe and over 40,000 visitors.

Pio Abad's solo exhibition begins, paradoxically, with a work by another artist: The Bridge (To Sonny Rollins), a hard-edge painting from 1981 by Leo Valledor. This prologue to the main act serves a n

The shortlisted artists and upcoming art critics for this year's Ateneo Art Awards were announced Wednesday at the Shangri-La Plaza. For the Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art, 12 exhibits were s

Walking through the glass doors of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) in downtown Manila, one is immediately greeted by the domineering faces of Pacita Abad's Bacongo VI (1986) and _Eu

Filipino visual artist Nicole Coson doesn't need her grandfather's help to get where she wants to be. Henry Sy's granddaughter has made a name for herself in the art scene, totally independent of the

While browsing the labyrinth of the Asian Art Museum near Civic Center station, it's very possible that viewers might look through centuries worth of art from the Asian diaspora before finding the two

Earth-stuff goes through myriad transformations on its path to usefulness in our world. Soil, stone, water, oil, plants, animals, and the rest all pass through processes of cleaning, smoothing, separa

Artistic director Mami Kataoka has today revealed the first 21 artists selected for the latest edition of the Asia Pacific’s leading contemporary art event.

This year, 131 galleries from 27 countries exhibited, just over a third of them from Southeast Asia.

In the Philippine artist’s first solo show in Hong Kong, new works from a distinctive, ongoing project are untitled and devoid of figuration, highlighting the architectural boundaries of the space with their imposing scales and uniform brick-patterned composition.

As a site of exploration, as much as it is a site of tension, the body – individual, human, but also collective and collectively shaped – is the focus for a range of artistic interpretations at the Yokohama Museum of Art. Showcasing the works of six artists from the United Kingdom and Nigeria, Japan and Southeast Asia...

Oceanic Feeling  was the first major survey of the decade-long practices of New Zealand artist Sriwhana Spong and Filipina artist Maria Taniguchi, whose marked oeuvres both consider the temporality of material, and intersect in the way that they each focus on the act of making, creating awareness of artistic processes and intentions, which...

Borders between traditions and mediums blur in Sriwhana Spong And Maria Taniguchi: Oceanic Feeling, a rich and vivid exhibition of works from the two artists. The exhibition at Lasalle's Institute o

Launched on 20 August 2016, Oceanic Feeling,  features sculpture, painting, film and video, and performance by the two artists, reflecting their concerns with material, technological and natural processes. For many exhibitions, it is not uncommon for there to be a prescribed path of sorts, a predictably linear order in which you are...

Founded this year by art historian and curator Nathalie Johnston, Myanm/art is the most recent addition to a steady history of Yangon organizations that aim to shape and record the practices of artists typically beleaguered by the oppressive and unpredictable politics of their country. In Being 365, a series of 365 photographic portraits, one...

Who are the people under 40 making waves in the art world? That was the question we asked ourselves in 2014, when we launched the first Apollo 40 Under 40. That year’s list, which focused on Europe, and the subsequent 40 Under 40 USA, weren’t meant as power lists but as surveys of talent: of young people who have firmly established...

Art Radar profiles three internationally-recognised Southeast Asian artists presented in an exhibition curated by Filipino artist Gary-Ross Pastrana in Jakarta. The works on show demonstrate a thorough understanding and exploration of materials, which has resulted in unconventional and cross-cultural forms. Known to expand notions of...

Madam Liu, Director of Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan (MOCA Yinchuan), announced today that the museum will hold its first biennale. To be curated by internationally acclaimed artist, curator and co-founder of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Bose Krishnamachari, the exhibition will be held from September 9 to December 18, 2016 on the premises of MOCA...

In the 1970s, the Philippines were the pearl of South East Asia and a popular travel destination. My father was backpacking there on his way to Japan, but decided to stay in this island paradise. Several visits later, he married my mother and returned to Bremen, Germany with her. She adapted to her new circumstances very quickly; she learned the...

There have been undeniable changes in how we perceive the reality that surrounds us in our hyper-digital, smart-phone centric age, but it is incredibly difficult to concretely articulate where exactly these shifts occurred and continue to. Multimedia artist James Clar explores these newly modified perceptions of reality in False Awakenings, his...

Running from 19 March to 29 May 2016 at Para Site, Afterwork is a group exhibition that explores a wide scope of issues related to “race” – as constructed through ingrained socio-cultural, political, economic, legal and historical forces and representations – as well as its relation to class, labour and migration within...

To borrow a phrase from Antonia Carver, director of Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah will be turned into “art city” this week. With the start of the 10th edition of the annual fair, collectors and gallerists will converge within the conference halls of the sprawling complex to buy and sell some of the freshest contemporary works, while...

ARNDT gallery and the newly established ARNDT Art Agency A3 in Berlin present WASAK! Filipino Art Today. The exhibition, which opened on 5 December 2015 and continues until 30 January 2016, attempts the formidable task of mapping the art of a geographic region distinctive for its splintered nature. ARNDT, a gallery that focuses its attention...