Interrupted Passage

The film called Temps Mort (Dead Time or Time Out) presents an exchange of short video footage assembled into one final edit...

"A Land Imagined" and The Ghosts We Forget | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo courtesy of Akanga Film Asia & Philipp Aldrup Photography Photo courtesy of Akanga Film Asia & Philipp Aldrup Photography February 21, 2019 By Alfonse Chiu (1200 words, six-minute read) The three definitions of the word “ghost” from the Oxford dictionary are as follows: the first, “an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living”; the second, “a slight trace or vestige of something”; and the third, “a faint secondary image caused by a fault in an optical system, duplicate signal transmission, etc.” In all three, presence is a suggestion of memory, amenable to corrections by means of a quick scrub of one’s spectacles...

Arnolfini censorship row deepens as artists refuse to work with the Bristol institution Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Censorship news Arnolfini censorship row deepens as artists refuse to work with the Bristol institution The dispute was sparked by a decision to cancel Palestine Film Festival events Gareth Harris 14 December 2023 Share Signatories say that the Arnolfini's cancellation is "part of an alarming pattern of censorship and repression within the arts sector" Courtesy Artists for Palestine UK More than 1,000 cultural figures—including the artists Ben Rivers, Brian Eno and Tai Shani—are refusing to work with the Arnolfini contemporary arts centre in Bristol, UK, after the institution cancelled two events last month as part of the city’s Palestine Film Festival...

The late billionaire assembled a collection of 20th-century American masterworks that has rarely been seen by the public....

"The Inside World,” a show made up of Aboriginal Australian memorial poles, is currently on view (virtually) at the Frost Art Museum FIU....

Confronting Truths in Ho Tzu Nyen’s “The Mysterious Lai Teck” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of the artist May 2, 2019 By Patricia Tobin (736 words, 3-minute read) Spoiler Alert: This review contains spoilers for The Mysterious Lai Teck , which will run from 17 to 19 May at the Singapore International Festival of Arts...

The Seen and Unseen: A Search For Self | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Claudia Dian February 25, 2020 The following review is made possible through a Critical Residency programme supported by By Carolyn Oei (638 words, 4-minute read) “Embracing life means embracing every element of dualism in it...

"Hijrah": In Between Body and Gender 'Migration' | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Sapto Agus October 9, 2018 By Michael HB Raditya (1018 words, five-minute read) Read this review in Bahasa Indonesia ...

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Los Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Repatriation news Los Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana The Fowler Museum at UCLA has repatriated seven artefacts that were taken during the Sagrenti War of 1874 Scarlet Cheng 5 February 2024 Share Unidentified member(s) of gold workers' guild (Asante peoples, Kumasi, Ghana), Royal necklace (gorget) or stool ornament; Before 1874; gold Fowler Museum at UCLA, Gift of the Wellcome Trust Seven handcrafted Asante objects have just travelled halfway around the globe to be returned, 150 years later, to the family of their original owners in Kumasi, Ghana...

Layered Realities: Exploring Martin Whatson’s “InsideOutsider” / Eva Marie Bentsen | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY Martin Whatson, a Norwegian stencil artist born in 1984, has carved out a distinctive niche in the contemporary and street art worlds...

Hideka Tonomura spent 20 years inside Tokyo's notorious red-light district advertisement...

The work of Sean Landers has long examined the relationship between artists and their own work, including the adventures of the character Plankboy...

A judge ordered three London galleries to return a Marc Chagall painting to one of the victims of disgraced Manhattan dealer Ezra Chowaiki....

Weekly Picks: Indonesia (19 - 25 November 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do November 19, 2018 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Bali, Solo and Jakarta from 19 – 25 November 2018 We start our picks this week from Sanur, Bali...

Set to the iconic and spiritual music of Alice Coltrane’s Turiyasangitananda (1937–2007), Cauleen Smith’s film Sojourner travels across the US to visit a series of sites important to an alternative and creative narrative of black history...

Combine the classic party game Apples to Apples with a visit to the fabulous home of a wealthy collector and what do you get? Words of Art....

My Shape (2018) is the final work of the exhibition “Sorry”, taking the form of a Levi’s denim jacket pattern, expanded three or four times larger than its original shape...

Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Protest art in Thailand; The productive pandemic | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Via Coconuts Bangkok November 26, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...

It’s a right Heath Robinson affair, by Ryan Gander March 14 – May 2, 2009 A double exhibition in collaboration with gb agency, Paris...