by Fashionaddict

I watched “Revolutionary Road” recently, and found myself distracted by the clothes, which were beautiful (along with the cinematography actually). I can never decide if this is a good thing. Is it too much of a distraction from the film itself, or does it enhance the whole movie-going experience?

by Yusuf Martin

Since Rafiee Abdul Ghani’s early works – Ingatan dari Gunung (Memory of Mountains -1985) and Green Park 4 (1993), an insightful care and concern for nature’s milieu has been self evident within the artist’s works.

by ARTERI

A chance for a 6-month residency in Germany: studio and accommodation provided, including use of an experimental ceramic workshop (no prior experience with ceramics required). Oh, and 1200 Euros/month stipend. Read on for further details.

Deadline is 18 July 2009. Good luck!

by Haseena Abdul Majid

Inspired by the legendary voyages of Admiral Cheng Ho, Singaporean artist Jason Wee first formed the skeletal of RUINS: Captain Log Entries on Days with No End during his residency at the Artspace Visual Arts Center in Sydney.

By Eva McGovern

On the last day of a recent trip to Manila, we went to see Nilo Ilarde’s exhibition Cold Cuts at gallery/cafe Mag:net in Quezon City. Ilarde is a mid career conceptual artist and curator known for his artistic interventions of internal gallery architecture.

by Chi Too

There’s nothing like directing your first French film, which is the epitome of “serious” art house filmmaking. Produced specially for ARTERI, Chi Too’s Regardant La Peinture Secher (Watching Paint Dry) is humourously dedicated to the love of paint.

by Simon Soon

Paiman’s drawing installation begins with the discipline of a daily exercise, routinely selecting a verbatim from a published mainstream media source that would best represent the political development of the day. He then types them on the entry page of the appropriate date from an Islamic diary and pairs them with a doodle of his mutant comic figures that are largely devoid of any political commentary.

by Sharon Chin

Greetings from Sapporo! It’s one week into my 2-month residency at S-AiR, although it feels like months have passed. It’s amazing how much living you can fit into a few days when you’re away from your usual surroundings. The city is beautiful – full of parks, flowers, trees and big sidewalks where you can bike around without fear of being run over. The pace here is slow and gentle, although the wind is much less so – it feels like it’s blowing down from directly from the icy mountaintops!

by ARTERI

ARTERI & The Annexe Gallery are delighted to present a talk by Phoebe Wong from the Asia Art Archive (http://www.aaa.org.hk). In this informal talk, Phoebe will introduce the role that AAA plays as an archival organisation for contemporary art in Asia.

Thu 28 May, 8pm; free admission!

by ARTERI

Announcement: The Box of Ideas is packaged and priced as a cigarette box. But instead of 20 nicotine fixes, you get 100 ideas from artists, activists and other agent provocateurs. It will be promoted via luscious cigarette girls+boys embedded in social events throughout Kuala Lumpur from 27 June 2009.

Submit your ideas!

by Zedeck Siew

In the spirit of sharing:

If you are an observer in any capacity of the videogame industry, 2008’s Braid was hailed as a significant milestone for the games-are-art argument. It’s easy to see why: painterly visuals and ingenious, spare gameplay mechanics — which tie into the game’s primary meditation: time, or our longing to reverse past wrongs.

by Haseena Abdul Majid

There is a quiet sense of resignation to reality and dissatisfaction with chaos in Haslin Ismail’s recent exhibition Exorcismus Persona at RA Fine Arts. His surrealist approach covers various mediums, from painting, assemblage, mixed media, installations and handmade books.

By Nazim Esa

Bernard Chauly’s cross-cultural approach to his artistic discourse spans across theater, film, television and now, the visual arts; in this podcast interview, he talks about love, his work in the recent Light Show 2009 exhibition, and cooking!

Now with nifty photographic visuals!

by Eva McGovern

I was forwarded this link to a new work by Thai artist Wit Pimkanchanapong and Duckunit studio. I was so hypnotised by it that I had to share it with you all. It’s called My-ya-rab which is a type of sensitive plant or Mimosa in Thai and is a large scale kinetic sculpture currently installed at Bangkok Art & Cultural centre.

by ARTERI

It’s almost unreal that the Klang Valley art scene has been buzzing with activities non-stop for the past month. You’d think that as we enter into what is described as the worst recession since the Depression that programmes would have been scaled down or decommissioned altogether.