by Sylvia Degiacomi

Exhibition Profile: ‘What Goes Up’ @ Shalini Ganendra Fine Arts

An exhibition showcasing the works of four award-winning local artists, at the gallery that is (in)famous for being by appointment only.

by Siddharta Perez

Manila City Jail revisited: Street artist Mark Salvatus plays both ethnographer and artist in his attempt at uncovering the prison gang riots of 2008.

by Suraya Warden

Exhibition Review: Everything is Sacred, by Norberto Roldan at Taksu Gallery, strikes the viewer as straight from the heart, showing works by an artist whose contemplations have been successfully translated into visual art.

by Bill Nguyen

The culturally and historically significant landmark of Hanoi, Long Bien bridge, was transformed into a spectacle of arts and festivity. Concerts, performances, lion dance, ethnic parades aren’t necessarily meaningful forms of engagemnet, as our Vietnam correspondent muses and responds.

by Shahril Abdul Rani

Theatre Review: Oral Stage presents Oh Dad, Poor Dad…

“Oh Dad, Poor Dad” may seem like the usual parody with exaggerated two-dimensional characters, but there many things which can be read between the lines and interpreted differently.

by Bill Nguyen

Review: Anthony Bannwart + Magnus Aronson’s Tempography @ Goethe-Institut, Hanoi

Our Hanoi correspondent discovers poignancy in the video medium – to catch a brief moment, a short movement, and the continuity of that moment/movement, which a photograph can’t record, and which the camera(man) tends to overlook.

by Simon Soon

A visit to Galeri Petronas’s Changing Phases: Relative Spaces proves to be a disappointing encounter with a bland and politically correct account of modern Malaysia. They have failed history.

by Patricia Lajumin

Different But Same in Wei-Ling Gallery presented current works by local practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of modern photography in Malaysia. While some works used straight photography to get their points across, others are more experimental in nature, adopting photographic strategies which are not specifically associated with the medium

by Bill Nguyen

Review: Hoang Minh Duc’s Longan @ Nha San Duc, Hanoi

Intervention of the ‘longan’ in Nha San Duc creates playfully new ways for viewers to engage with the architectural structure of a contemporary art space housed under a traditional Muong stilt house.

by Bill Nguyen

Review: Nguyen Phuong Linh’s Salt @ Galerie Qunyh

Salt exists in many different forms – as fluid, crystals and air. It also becomes a personal and poetic language that engages with the social history of salt production in Vietnam.

By Eva McGovern

Review: Liew Kwai Fei’s Paintings for All Ages / Paintings with Extended Space @ No 19 Jalan Berangan

Liew Kwai Fei’s abstract conceptualisations around colour theory, the purity of form, and objectivity.

by Bilqis Hijjas

Review: Evolving Motion’s Duod

Sometimes it is enough just to revel in the joyousness of two dexterous bodies at play. With Cathy Seago & Rosalind Noctor, there was an element of watching the cavorting of sea lions or dolphins — if dolphins were familiar with fractal theory.

oleh Nirwan Ahmad Arsuka

Selain deretan karya yang sungguh beraneka ragam dan dikerjakan dalam kurun dua dekade lebih dari mungkin perupa terpenting Indonesia saat ini, penghargaan memang harus juga diberikan ke pelaksanaan pameran, Still Crazy After All These Years.

By June Yap

After watching visual artist Brian Gothong Tan’s first foray into feature film-making, Invisible Children (2008), it took a while for me to pin down exactly what I felt about the work – a ordinary sensation, but remarkable nonetheless.

By ARTERI

An evening of magical realism, story telling, puppetry, total installation, suspension of disbelief and contemporary fairy tales by Iwan Effendi and Maria Tri Sulistyani at Valentine Willie Fine Art KL.