“To walk attentively through a forest, even a damaged one, is to be caught by the abundance of life: ancient and new; underfoot and reaching into the light. But how does one tell the life of the forest? We might begin by looking for drama...
The “moon jar” is a distinctive type of porcelain vessel from the late Joseon period (1392– 1897). The moon jar (viz., dalhangari) is so called due of its form, which was traditionally made by adjoining two hemispherical halves. The joined halves often come to evoke...
On the lower level of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) is a mortuary of sorts. Cast in warm fluorescent light is the open casket of a 110-year-old Canary Island date palm, Phoenix canariensis, that once stood on what is now the footprint...
S.E.A. Focus returns to Singapore 6–15 January. Founders and directors of Gajah Gallery, STPI, de Sarthe, and SILVERLENS introduce alluring works they'll be showing at the fair. Jason Lim, Grain of Sand (Orange) (2021). Paper pulp with stainless structure. 53 x 80 x 65 cm....
ART SG is being billed as Southeast Asia's biggest fair launch ever. Over 160 galleries will exhibit on two full floors of the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre from 12–15 January. It's an ambitious way to start, but the fair is backed by an...
Art SG debuts in Singapore 12–15 January. Take an early look inside the booths of Miles McEnery, KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Pearl Lam Galleries, Gazelli Art House, Pi Artworks, ShugoArts, Alisan Fine Arts, and MAKI Gallery. Jacob Hashimoto, A Foreshortened Fable (2022). Acrylic, bamboo, paper, wood, and...
So many things have shaped the landscape of contemporary art in Greece since the 2000s, from the Athens Biennale's agitprop and the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art's summertime slaughterhouse shows on Hydra, to Gregory Markopoulos' unfolding magnum opus in Arcadia, Eniaios. Then there's The Callas. Formed...
In Jamaican Patois, the phrase 'soon come' communicates an impending return or arrival, often with no fixed date. Charmingly vague and heavy with potential, it also forms the title of artist Matthew Arthur Williams' first major U.K. institutional exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Spanning two galleries,...
The title of Zai Kuning and Azizan Paiman's exhibition Invisible Border (5 November–18 December 2022) at Ota Fine Arts Singapore recalls the thousands of Singaporeans and Malaysians who crossed the Johor-Singapore Causeway to meet their loved ones as the border fully reopened on 1 April...
Crate wood, used furniture, and umbrella fabric are only some of the materials that recur within the artist's work—a habit Lam took up since her early days as an art student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where other people's discarded projects became her...