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Topic Archives: Historical art
Southeast Asian photography: Langgeng Art Foundation holds rare group showing
Posted on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
The Langgeng Art Foundation has brought together works by Southeast Asia’s top photographers in a rare exhibition that is running until 21 January 2012.
Palestinian artists use documentary tactics to sustain and subvert – ArtAsiaPacific
Posted on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
An article published in the Issue 74 of ArtAsiaPacific explores the adoption of documentary-based techniques by contemporary Palestinian artists.
Unravelling history in “Japanese House” – Tomoko Yoneda at ShugoArts
Posted on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Japanese-style houses built in Taiwan at the turn of the century are the subject in a new series by photographer Tomoko Yoneda, called “Japanese House”.
Horrific events in Japan and how art helps – ART IT columnist Kyoichi Tsuzuki
Posted on Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
In an article for ART IT, columist Kyoichi Tsuzuki takes some time to show us how art has been utilised by Japanese people during and after horrific and extreme events.
Taiwanese digital photographer Wu Tien-chang’s figures are limbless and costumed
Posted on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Formerly an oil painter, Taiwanese-born Wu Tien-chang’s fascination with reincarnation, karma and national identity has lead him to create unsettling “digital paintings.”
Video artist Chen Chieh Jen’s diary for Taiwan society – Studio Banana TV interview
Posted on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Most people in countries around the world move silently through their lives. Taiwanese video artist Chen Chieh Jen attempts to gives a voice to those less-represented.
Walid Raad’s Lebanon shows in Sweden for first time – picture post
Posted on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Lebanese-American Walid Raad’s retrospective spans twenty years of artworks that study Beirut, the Lebanese civil war and the Arab art world.
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MoMA collects numerous drawings by Hajra Waheed
Kazakhstani art festival ArtBatFest calls for public arts submissions
ART HK repositions ASIA ONE section for 2012, now “heart” of fair
Museums in the age of the mega-collector: Can public institutions compete? – WSJ Blogs
Meet us at ARCOmadrid 2012! Art Radar participant in Asian Maps IX
Art Radar’s 16 most-searched contemporary Asian artists, July to December 2011
Migrant Ecologies: Innovative Southeast Asian science-art collaboration
Indian art collective WALA wins FICA Public Art Grant 2011 with performance art
Qatar Cézanne purchase points to building of art “museum empire”?