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Shirin Neshat’s inspiration from home – TED video
Posted on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
In a TED Talks video posted in May 2011, Shirin Neshat tells the audience how, as an artist in exile, she was inspired by her home country and people there.
Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam’s first UK retrospective – picture feast
Posted on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The first UK retrospective of works by internationally renowned Bangladeshi photographer and social activist Shahidul Alam is on at London’s Wilmotte Gallery until December 2011.
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.
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”?