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22022021, Yawnghwe Office in Exile by Sawangwongse Yawnghwe belongs to a body of work made in response to the Myanmar military coup that began in February 2021...

The Substation’s SeptFest 2021: Endnote | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Joelle Cecilia Quek April 15, 2021 Text and photos by Joelle Cecilia Quek The Substation’s 2021 SeptFest made a full comeback in March after 6 years, marking the 30th anniversary of Singapore’s first independent home of the arts...

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In what could be a major game changer for Indigenous Australian art, Gagosian Gallery in NYC will exhibit work from 10 desert painters and it's happening thanks to Hollywood actor and art collector Steve Martin....

The Italian collector in a cavernous space with a dark exhibition about fear....

A Spell to Ward off the Darkness is a collaboration between artist-filmmakers Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (US), presented for the first time as a multi-channel installation (film transferred to video) at Kadist Art Foundation...

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Reviews Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave review: Room to breathe and reflect Reviews Anthony Caro: Paper Like Steel, review Reviews Alberto Giacometti at Tate Modern review: What variety there is here Reviews Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors review: Extravagantly choreographed Reviews Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic review: It's curiously lacklustre Reviews Becoming Henry Moore review: His work could be better lit Reviews Imagine Moscow exhibition: How humanity scaled down its ambitions Reviews Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends review: He made so many portraits Reviews Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun review: Gender surrealism Reviews America after the Fall review: A show of highly significant paintings Reviews Wolfgang Tillmans review: Does he deserve to be taken so seriously? Reviews Photographs by Vanessa Bell and Patti Smith, review Reviews Revolution: Russian Art, review: Reviews Keith Tyson Turn Back Now review: A peacockish exercise in showing off Reviews G...

From Green to Orange is a series of silver films immersed in a bath of dye and rust...

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Features | The Independent Features Long Reads William Cook Gabriele Munter: The forgotten woman of German expressionism Long Reads William Cook David Chipperfield meets Mies van der Rohe Features Anish Kapoor: ‘The government is a bunch of f***ing liars’ Features Gene Simmons: ‘Mortality? It helps to be delusional’ News What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like Features ‘Traces of this tumult’: The precious artworks looted by the Nazis Features Sold to Hitler: What constitutes art sales under duress? Features Light Years: the exhibition proving photography is an art form Culture Mark Hudson Sophie Taeuber-Arp at the Tate Modern is almost the show she deserves Culture Aindrea Emelife Untitled finally gives a forward-thinking display of diasporic art Culture Mark Hudson Thought photography was about taking photographs? Think again Culture Charlotte Cripps From Grayson Perry to Chantal Joffe: 8 artists on working in miniature Features The 10 best culture picks for June Culture Ayo Akingbade The art world is full of middle class people and nepotism Features Ai Weiwei: ‘Lego is no different from Rembrandt or Van Gogh’s paint’ Features Hockney or hackneyed.....

From Here On: Going to the theatre in the time of COVID | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay October 1, 2020 By Jocelyn Chng (1,550 words, 5-minute read) Attending From Here On , my first live performance since COVID hit, evoked a very strange mix of emotions in me...

This is not in Spanish looks at the ways in which the Chinese population in Mexico navigates the daily marginalization they encounter there...

Weekly Picks: Singapore (15 - 21 September 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do October 15, 2018 Because it’s Fun by The Fool Theatre 愚者剧场 , Drama Centre Black Box, 12 – 21 October The inaugural production for The Fool Theatre, Because it’s Fun shows how bullying is omnipresent in our society and how it affects our mental well-being...

Ranging from Baudelaire to the Koran, each of Hassan Massoudy’s drawings are titled with a quotation from a text...

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Weekly Picks: Indonesia (21 - 27 January 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do January 21, 2019 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta, Solo, and Bali from 21 – 27 January 2019 Arcolabs, a visual art community supporting engagement and growth of arts in Jakarta, invites you to attend The Concept of Self: individual and integrity ...

Invalid Throne by Jakrawal Nilthamrong is a 35mm film that searches the protagonist Kamjorn Sankwan’s memory and connection with the land he grew up in...

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