Georgette Chen, Self Portrait (c. 1946). Oil on canvas. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Gift of Lee Foundation. Collection of National Gallery Singapore.
Ocula Conversation Tschabalala Self: 'We must abandon the lies and mistruths we have been told' By Jareh Das, New York City Tschabalala Self discusses her representations of Black bodies as sites of multiplicity.
Ocula Conversation Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop By Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Sydney Lindy Lee reflects on her decades-long practice with MCA Director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, curator of her current survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Ocula Conversation Love and Artificial Intelligence By Penny Liu, Beijing Cornelia Schneider, head of global experiential marketing at Hyundai Motor Company, and curator Jiaying Chen discuss the winning exhibition of Hyundai Blue Prize 2020, which supports emerging curators in China.
Ocula Conversation 'We'll see what the hell happens': Jim Shaw on Politics and Pop Culture in the U.S. By Lydia Yee, London Ahead of the U.S. election results, Jim Shaw talks to Whitechapel Gallery chief curator Lydia Yee about the political and pop cultural themes in his latest paintings.
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'.
Ocula Feature Takis, the 'Instinctive Scientist' By Despina Zefkili, Hong Kong With White Cube Hong Kong presenting the first show in Asia of works by the late sculptor Takis, explore the life and work of a self-described 'instinctive scientist', whom Marcel Duchamp called 'the happy ploughman of magnetic fields'.
Ocula Feature Asia Society's First Triennial Dreams of Unity By Vivian Chui, New York With works by over 40 artists including Kimsooja, Shazia Sikander, and Xu Zhen, Vivian Chui reviews the first Asia Society Triennial in New York: 'a pan-Asian tribute in an urban landscape where nearly one and a quarter million citizens claim to be of Asian descent'.
Ocula Feature Kim Lim in Her Own Context By Bianca Chu, London On the occasion of the Kim Lim's spotlight at Tate Britain, Bianca Chu traces the artist's practice and the mark it left on the British art scene.
Ocula Insight Hong Kong Spotlight: Six Artists to Watch By Stephanie Bailey, Hong Kong Hong Kong Spotlight is Art Basel's first physical presentation in 2020.
Ocula Insight Artissima XYZ: Artist Highlights By Stephanie Bailey, Online We introduce some of the artists showing with Artissima XYZ, an online platform being staged for the fair's 2020 edition.
Ocula Insight Art021: Six Artwork Highlights By Ocula Advisory, Shanghai The Ocula Advisory team select six highlights from Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair's 8th edition, running from 12 to 15 November 2020.
Ocula Insight Nadim Abbas: Process as Form By Ingrid Pui Yee Chu, Hong Kong The mixed media installations by Hong Kong artist Nadim Abbas explore the subtle and unseen structures that define urban living.
Ocula News Australian Centre for Photography Enters 'Hibernation' Sydney, 27 November 2020 'Continuing to operate in our current form is a pathway to extinction,' said Chairman Michael Blomfield.
Ocula News Noguchi Museum Swears No Relationship With Melania Washington D.C., 26 November 2020 Isamu Noguchi is the first Asian American artist collected by the White House.
Ocula News See All 12 Works Shortlisted for High Line Plinth Commissions New York, 26 November 2020 Models of the proposed artworks will be exhibited on the High Line from January 2021.
Ocula News Who Is Tate Winter Commission Artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman? London, 24 November 2020 Chila Kumari Singh Burman identifies as a Punjabi, Liverpudlian, Pop artist, and alien.
