Ocula News Melbourne Art Fair to Host 2020 Edition in Online Viewing Rooms Melbourne, 28 May 2020 With the physical fair rescheduled for February next year, organisers have partnered with Ocula to offer an alternative online.
Ocula News Taipei Dangdai Launches Digital Platform With Ocula Taipei, 23 April 2020 Taipei Connections seeks to build a bridge between galleries and collectors separated by COVID-19.
Ocula Report Singapore Lowdown: Shows to See By Tessa Moldan, Singapore Singapore Art Week returns from 11 to 19 January 2020 with a host of island-wide events, at the centre of which is the second edition of S.E.A. Focus (16–19 January 2020) at Gillman Barracks, showcasing the best of contemporary art in Southeast Asia.
Ocula Photolog Asia Now 2019 'Asia Now is expanding and this year will welcome over 50 of the most prominent and cutting-edge galleries presenting over 250 established and emerging artists from China, Korea, Japan, Central and Southeast Asia, who push the boundaries of contemporary art.' –Asia Now, Paris (16–20 October 2019).
Ocula Report Art Jakarta Drops Anchor in a Stormy Southeast Asian Art Market By Sam Gaskin, Jakarta Jakarta may be sinking, prompting the announcement last month that Indonesia will create a new capital on the island of Borneo, but the city's longest-running art fair is on the rise. Founded by the license holder of Harper's Bazaar Indonesia, the fair began as Bazaar Art Jakarta in 2008. While it's still owned by the same holding company, MRA...
Ocula Report Singapore Art Week: Exhibitions to See By Tessa Moldan, Singapore S.E.A. Focus, the new boutique art fair by STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery (24–27 January 2019), will take centre stage during Singapore Art Week (19–27 January 2019). With plenty of exhibitions happening throughout the city, this list offers a selection of shows to see.
Ocula Report Institutional critique in the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial By Tess Maunder, Brisbane Since the late 1980s the major concern for curatorial practice has been the rise of biennale culture; the impact this exhibition format has had upon both the production and reception of contemporary art internationally. Reflecting on this lineage and recent politics from within the Asia-Pacific region, it is apparent that exhibitions such as...
Ocula Conversation Richard Armstrong By Anna Dickie, Hong Kong Richard Armstrong is the Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation. As well as managing the foundation he oversees the Guggenheim Museum in New York as well as the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Deutsche Guggenheim and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi due for completion in 2017. Prior to this...
Ocula Conversation June Yap Launched in April 2012, the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative charts contemporary art in South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia is the Initiative’s inaugural exhibition. Initially shown in New York, (22 February–22 May 2013), the...
