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Liu Kuo-sung: A Modern Master Who Found the Future in the Past

Ocula Feature Liu Kuo-sung: A Modern Master Who Found the Future in the Past By Stephanie Bailey, Singapore Seeking artistic freedom, Liu Kuo-sung revolutionised traditional Chinese ink painting to reflect the essence of nature.

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Light to Night Festival 2022

Ocula Photolog Light to Night Festival 2022 Taking place over three weeks, the 6^th edition of the festival will focus on the pursuit of new perspectives and states of mind. Audiences are invited to uncover new ways of seeing, thinking and being as they engage with fresh perspectives about the world we live in.

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Singapore Art Week 2022: Exhibitions to See

Ocula Feature Singapore Art Week 2022: Exhibitions to See By Elaine YJ Zheng, Singapore Ocula Magazine presents a selection of must-see exhibitions during the 10^th edition of Singapore Art Week.

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Art Takes Over Singapore Art Week’s 10th Edition

Ocula News Art Takes Over Singapore Art Week’s 10th Edition Singapore, 5 January 2022 Events will take place in unconventional spaces across Singapore, including heritage buildings in the Civic District, a warehouse in Tanjong Pagar Distripark, and the Lau Pa Sat hawker centre.

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Nam June Paik Mega Exhibition Arrives at National Gallery Singapore

Ocula News Nam June Paik Mega Exhibition Arrives at National Gallery Singapore Singapore, 8 December 2021 The exhibition is a major survey of visionary Korean artist Nam June Paik, who in many ways anticipated the Internet.

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M+ Launches ‘Watch and Chill’ Video Exhibition

Ocula News M+ Launches ‘Watch and Chill’ Video Exhibition Hong Kong, 27 August 2021 Featured works will show online, at exhibitions in Hong Kong, Seoul, and Chiang Mai, and at a drive-in cinema in Manila.

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Yee I-Lann on Relearning Differently in Borneo

Ocula Conversation Yee I-Lann on Relearning Differently in Borneo By Renan Laru-an, Kota Kinabalu Yee I-Lann speaks to curator Renan Laru-an about finding a 'multilingual approach' to museology.

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KADIST Brings Tradition to Life at Guangdong Times Museum with 'Frequencies of Tradition'

Ocula Insight KADIST Brings Tradition to Life at Guangdong Times Museum with 'Frequencies of Tradition' By Stephanie Bailey, Guangzhou Frequencies of Tradition at Guangdong Times Museum uncovers 'histories and futures that charge evolving trajectories'.

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S.E.A. Focus Connects Southeast Asia With Hybrid Format

Ocula Insight S.E.A. Focus Connects Southeast Asia With Hybrid Format By Tessa Moldan, Singapore S.E.A. Focus embraces a hybrid format for its third edition.

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UNESCO's ResiliArt Movement Inspires Asia Art Space Network Forum

Ocula Feature UNESCO's ResiliArt Movement Inspires Asia Art Space Network Forum By Penny Liu, Online This year's Asia Art Space Network forum considered the relationship between art and resilience.

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Georgette Chen: An Inimitable Pioneer of the Nanyang Style

Ocula Feature Georgette Chen: An Inimitable Pioneer of the Nanyang Style By Stephanie Bailey, Singapore Georgette Chen 'called herself a product of two Chinese revolutions and two world wars'.

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Dettol Is the New Xanax, Finds Artist Cao Fei

Ocula News Dettol Is the New Xanax, Finds Artist Cao Fei Singapore, 6 October 2020 Leading Chinese new media artist Cao Fei has revealed intimate, anxious studies created under lockdown in Singapore.

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At Singapore Biennale 2020, Artists Rework the World

Ocula Feature At Singapore Biennale 2020, Artists Rework the World By Stephanie Bailey, Singapore The sixth edition of the Singapore Biennale considers how artistic practices can 'rework the world'.

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Emi Eu: ‘We have to look at Southeast Asia as one market’

Ocula Conversation Emi Eu: ‘We have to look at Southeast Asia as one market’ By Stephanie Bailey, Singapore STPI's Emi Eu reflects on S.E.A. Focus, an STPI project platforming artists and galleries from Southeast Asia, in the wake of Art Stage's decline in 2019.

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Cao Fei Creates Swinging Space Raft for National Gallery Singapore Rooftop

Ocula News Cao Fei Creates Swinging Space Raft for National Gallery Singapore Rooftop Singapore, 22 January 2020 The meditation on migration will be on display until 25 October 2020.

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Patrick Flores: 'Southeast Asia must be geopolitically unburdened'

Ocula Conversation Patrick Flores: 'Southeast Asia must be geopolitically unburdened' By Tess Maunder, Singapore Patrick Flores, artistic director of the 2019 Singapore Biennale, discusses the 'energies of province' that have calibrated his art historical outlook.

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Singapore Lowdown: Shows to See in 2020

Ocula Feature Singapore Lowdown: Shows to See in 2020 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.

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Aesthetic Radicalism in ‘Awakenings’ at Singapore’s National Gallery

Ocula Feature Aesthetic Radicalism in ‘Awakenings’ at Singapore’s National Gallery By Sam Gaskin, Singapore Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s, was co-organised with Japan Foundation Asia Center, the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea.

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Melanie Pocock in Conversation

Ocula Conversation Melanie Pocock in Conversation By Michael Lee, Singapore 'The ICA Singapore's galleries are the curatorial arms of LASALLE; while drawing on the resources of the college, they also reach outwards, creating bridges between communities of artists and the public.' Melanie Pocock discusses her curatorial work within ICA Singapore.

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Dr Eugene Tan

Ocula Conversation Dr Eugene Tan By Laura Thomson, Singapore The focus of National Gallery Singapore is the art histories of Singapore and Southeast Asia. We examine the historical development of modern art in Southeast Asia within a global context

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