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North Dagon: A hub of artistic creation, who knew? (via Myanmar Times)

Much like meeting your idols, seeing your favourite artists’place of work is fraught with danger. What if you discover that the birthplace of their artistic creations looks more like what you’d find in an Ikea catalogue rather than the paint splattered artistic equivalent of a hydrothermal vent where ideas spring to life on the canvas? What […]

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Sandar Khine

‘I just tried to prove to myself that I could do it’: Reflections on International Women’s Day (via Frontier Myanmar)

Sandar Khine, 46, is one of the few women artists in Myanmar who paint nudes, a courageous choice in a country where some equate images of a naked human body with pornography. A member of the Myanmar Fine Arts Collective who exhibits at New Treasure Art Gallery in Yangon, Sandar Khine was one of the

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Lui Hock Seng "Ellenborough Market, Clarke Quay", circa 1960 - 1965

Lui Hock Seng: The Past and Passing

By Akanksha Raja (920 words, four-minute read) On the heels of Objectifs Centre’s January showcase “we will have been young”, a group exhibition of works by fledgling Southeast Asian photographers themed on contemporary youth culture and the future, comes a very different solo showcase. This latest exhibition reverses its gaze, looking backwards on snippets of

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2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Cambodian photographer’s image honoured as one of the best in the world (via SEA Globe)

Cambodian photographer Ly Min has been recognised in the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards, with his image Cave of Skulls being selected among the top 50 in the world in the Open Travel Category The Open competition rewards the best single image across ten categories, and Min’s photo has been acknowledged as one of the

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“Out of Print”: classic Singaporean texts get a contemporary makeover

By Corrie Tan (1,300 words, eight-minute read) We’ve all met the gaze of this pair of narrow, red-pupilled eyes – whether with a torchlight under the bedcovers, or in school, snuck into class beneath a desk. The predatory stare on the cover of Russell Lee’s True Singapore Ghost Stories still follows us from the shelves

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Malaysian court jails, fines artist for clown caricature of PM (via Reuters)

A Malaysian artist and prominent opposition activist was jailed for a month on Tuesday for publishing a caricature of Prime Minister Najib Razak looking like a clown, a ruling likely to exacerbate concern about free speech. Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy recently announced plans to amend a law to stamp out fake news, the latest step

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TEXTURES, A Weekend with Words

ArtsEquator’s Picks: TEXTURES, A Weekend with Words

By Akanksha Raja Presented by The Arts House and co-commissioned by #BuySingLit, Textures – A Weekend With Words is an inaugural literary festival taking place from 9 – 11 March, chockablock with performances, workshops, book-themed exhibitions, and over 30 panel discussions, all in honour of homegrown literature, and the energetic, growing community that has contributed and

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ArtsEquator Photography Competition Winners: Capture a Moment of Art in the Making

To celebrate ArtsEquator’s first anniversary, we organised a photography competition in honour of the practice of artmaking. We called for snapshots of artists at work, or even caught in a moment of contemplation, reflection, anxiety as they make a work, regardless of genre or medium. All photographs were to be accompanied by a 100-150 word caption

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Gary Ross Pastrana

In Conversation with Contemporary Art’s Street Miner (via The Artling)

‘Street Mining: Contemporary Art from the Philippines’ features the works of Poklong Anading, Louie Cordero, Victor Balanon, Nona Garcia, Kawayan de Guia, Mm Yu, and the collective ‘Broke’. The show runs at Sundaram Tagore Gallery from 20 January to 2 March 2018 and has been guest-curated by ‘Broke’ co-founder Gary Ross Pastrana. I am meeting

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5 – 11 February 2018: Indonesia

Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta, Surabaya and Bali from 5 – 11 February 2018   JAKARTA Setelah Residensi Trimatra, 11 February – 11 March 2018, Galeri Salihara. Opening: 10 February 2018, 7 PM. This exhibition presents the works of 3 young contemporary artists who won Salihara Trimatra competition in 2016. The 3

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Singapore Art Scene

Singapore art scene losing ground to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (via South China Morning Post)

Lorenzo Rudolf seems to be taking the adage “all publicity is good publicity” a bit too far. Speaking on the opening day of Art Stage Singapore, the president and founder of the annual contemporary art fair gave such a downbeat description of the city state’s art market that seemed like a peculiar ploy to get

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Unfinished & Abandoned Art in Singaporean Artists’ Studios (via The New York Times Style Magazine Singapore)

What is the difference between finished and unfinished? No one can tell. It’s invisible to us but looms large in the artists’ minds. What the artist sees as unfinished and unsatisfactory may appear beautiful to our naked eye. Here, six local artists unearthed some of their unfinished and abandoned artworks. Tay Bak Chiang “This was from 2000 or

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