No touching! No moving! Exclusive video of a Tate Modern employee raking Ai Wei Wei’s Turbine Hall installation, like a monk in a giant zen garden of Chinese labour.
Stepping on the backs of artists. A review of “ROAD”, an exhibition by Myanmar artist Myat Kywat, 12 – 17 June 2010 at newly opened DAGAUNG Gallery in Yangon
By Eva McGovern
Thai artist Maitree Siriboon’s exhibition Isarn Boy Soi 4 at Whitespace Gallery. An intoxicating total installation or better yet a self reflective temple/bordello/nightclub for the artist to pause on issues of culture and gender identity
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 ARTERI
There’s little point in arguing about it really. Working with only the best, we can’t be anything else but too pleased and delighted to present to you The Best Art Show in the Univers.
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.
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 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.
By Erna Dyanty
Exhibition Review: June 2009, brought Nizam Abdullah’s first solo exhibition at the Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, entitled threesixfive ME, where he displayed new series of works with a theme that incorporates nothing but him self.
by Suraya Warden
Exhibition Review: Within eleven works of art, in a small space, under fluorescent lighting can be held vision, talent and active potential. Al Cruz at Richard Koh Fine Art.
By Suraya Warden
Exhibition Review: Artistic mapping is a cool idea. It is visually fun and has a point; one that works extremely well for the South Asian art scene as ‘Cartographical Lure’, the previous exhibition at Valentine Willie Fine Art, proves.
by ARTERI
Critical responses to Rock Kaka by Fahmi Redza, Yin Shao Loong, Eva McGovern and Simon Soon.
by Zedeck Siew
On 4 June – or was it 3 June? – two gentlemen walked into Valentine Willie Fine Art KL. Their target: Fahmi Reza’s Najib’s Head Stolen From Billboard.
Fahmi’s Najib was behind yellow police tape. “So, basically it means that our PM is behind a crime scene, is it?”
by Alex Yong
Personal Effects: 30th May – 14th June 2009 @ RogueArt
Personal Effects is a loose collection of belongings. It explores the many different ways in which we choose to look at objects and the values we impose on them.