Topic Archives: Reviews

Marc Jacobs of Louis Vuitton continues to push fashion and art collaboration to the cutting edge as his partnership with the contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama proves.

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Art Radar takes a closer look at the proliferating galleries and art spaces of Lado Sarai, an art district that has sprung up in the south west of New Delhi, India.

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While on a month’s residency at the Green Papaya Arts project, An Xiao is writing a new series on Hyperallergic based on the ‘contemporary art and technology scene’ in the Philippines.

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Maurice Davies reviews three publications on museums for The Art Newspaper and notes three distinct views on the future use of these public institutions.

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A new internet application from Google gives users access to famous art museums and artworks from around the world. But are there any practical uses for the feature?

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Mike Matas demonstrates the power of Apple’s Ipad applications using Al Gore’s The Choice app, while galleries begin to use the new digital format for art catalogues.

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The Japan Times takes a quirky look at a new Tokyo art district in Nihonbashi, publishing an article in which Kit Nagamura brings you a colloquial chronicle of his tour.

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ArtAsiaPacific provides a source of  design inspiration for those looking to make art books through its new “Book Blog” series, a focus on publication design and layout.

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The National Art Gallery, Singapore has launched Exhibition Panoramas and Art Radar takes a virtual tour to find out how close to a real show experience the feature is.

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Are you new to collecting art? Do you have a limited budget? Perhaps you should take a look at the photobook market.

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Art Radar looks at Tokyo Visualist, a book that helps readers access the world of Japanese contemporary art through interviews, essays and artist biographies.

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Online US-based radio ART on AIR, focussed on all things art, has produced a number of podcasts on Asian contemporary art that are worth making time for.

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Learn more about Southeast Asian master artists with little effort. Find out how, with the click of your mouse, you can delve into National Art Gallery, Singapore’s collection.

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Between its well-designed covers, Contemporary Art in the Middle East presents a comprehensive survey of West Asian art and artists. Art Radar reviews.

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trend-hunting site trendcentral has highlighted three new Internet-based services that aim at making life easier for art collectors, dealers and artists.

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Interested in Taiwanese art but struggle to find information? Art Island is a new publication that holds 200+ artist biographies.

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Nam June Paik, a Tate Liverpool retrospective celebrating the late artist’s career, wound up in March 2011. We’ve picked out a few of the best critic quotes.

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The Taipei Times reviews MoMA NY’s latest publication on Chinese Contemporary art, labelling it “serenely astute, clear-headed and sane.”

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New Israeli art website Omanoot.org launched with locally produced video art and film. Founded by Edoe Cohen, work by Israeli visual artists will follow.

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Formerly a print-only publication, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art have now made their 500+ archive of artist interviews, profiles, panel discussions and exhibition reviews available online, for USD2.95 per PDF download.

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Ten art blogs have been announced as the best on the World Wide Web by Arts Media Contacts. The company, who publish art media directories, asked for submissions last year for their competition, Top Art Blogs of 2010, and received a “huge number” of entries, narrowed down to ten by reader vote and their own judging process. We list the blogs, link to them and invite readers to tell us their favourite Asian art blogs.

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New art promotion website e-artnow is offering a free trial that lets art exhibitors or institutions send out a first announcement free of charge. The website, similar in style to e-flux, is a kind of information service that allows you publicise art auctions, conferences and the like through email announcements sent out to an email database. We discuss the merits of this new website and compare it with similar site e-flux and other related services. Continue reading →

TIBETAN CONTEMPORARY ART NEW YORK MUSEUM SHOWS Until October 18, Rubin Museum, usually New York’s home for traditional art of the Himalayas, will run the first Tibetan contemporary art show in the city. Titled “Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond“, this … Continue reading →

CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART PUBLICATION Asia Art Archive (AAA) and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) celebrate the completion of two documentary projects that are essential to a deeper understanding of the history of contemporary Chinese art: AAA’s Materials of the … Continue reading →

MADEIN ARTIST COLLECTIVE CHINESE ART UK GALLERY SHOW “Seeing One’s Own Eyes“ is the first European exhibition by MadeIn, a new artists’ collective founded in 2009 in Shanghai by Xu Zhen (b. 1977, Shanghai), often heralded as one of the … Continue reading →