Friendship, kinship, community—how can these interpersonal connections be established and maintained across geographies and even across generations? The multiplicity of relationships that Kang Seung Lee forms through his artistic practice is both ima

For his first solo exhibition in the city of his birth, Canadian-Hong Kong artist Howie Tsui presented a new series of mixed-media works featuring surreal characters and absurdist scenes, in large part inspired by his nostalgia for mid-20th century C

Consider a bamboo blind and the way it obstructs and concedes light across each corded slat; recall the coolness of a material that does not carry heat quite like concrete or brick. Placed in a climate-controlled museum, the defunct blind-turned-exhi

As storytellers, artists are often fascinated with the personal lives and creative output of others. But how can (or should) artists transform these stories into their own work? And as these artworks enter public circulation, what responsibilities do

Responding to various global sociopolitical tensions, “Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art” at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, was as timely as it was resonant. Complemented by an increasing exposure to textile-based art, the exhibit

Looking back over half a century of confronting the Hydra-headed force of global affairs, the esteemed Turkish artist Gülsün Karamustafa has two words for humanity: hollow and broken. These words also form the first part of “A State of the World,” th

Over the past two decades, Heman Chong has harbored a deep fascination with knowledge circulation through his multifaceted, conceptually driven practice. “Meditations on Shadow Libraries” at STPI gallery represented the Malaysian-born, Singapore-base

On the edge of a quiet river bank a barefooted, red-robed monk presses his heel carefully into the soil. Later, he walks at an inexplicably slow pace across the marble floor of Washington, DC’s iconic Union Station, entirely at odds with the anxious

Interest in South Asian art surged during Asia Week in New York. At the South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art auction on March 20, Christie’s New York brought in just under USD 20 million from 93 lots, a 79-percent increase from its USD 12 million

What contributions has contemporary art made to address the world’s environmental crises? This was the question posed by co-curators Martin Germann and Tsubaki Reiko in the four-chapter group exhibition of 34 artists at the Mori Art Museum, “Our Ecol

In Mumbai, growth is the only constant. Along with an expressway being built across the entire coast and reclaimed land being dug up for an ever-delayed metro project, there are so many ongoing construction sites in the financial capital that it peri

Having become accustomed to consuming short-form content on social media, submerging oneself in long-duration video works can often induce a certain restlessness. But watching The Peacock’s Graveyard (2023) by New Delhi-born filmmaker Amar Kanwar, wh

The biennial Melbourne Art Fair (MAF) (February 22–25) was back in force at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, attracting more than 15,000 visitors and achieving USD 9.53 million in sales, a reported 37-percent increase from its 2022 edi

INSIDE BURGER COLLECTION Since the 2010s, Tosh Basco has established an interdisciplinary practice that is marked by an inner drive for improvisation. With past performance venues spanning the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Museum of Art to Berlin’s

By Byung-Chul Han Published by Polity Cambridge, UK, 2024 Whether railing against the invasive and invisible forces of global capital in Psychopolitics (2017), the cult of wellness and personal improvement in The Burnout Society (2015) and Saving Bea

Rummana Hussain (1952–1999) is widely considered one of India’s foremost conceptual artists. I had the great fortune of seeing her last solo show before she died, “In Order to Join,” held at Art in General in New York in October 1998. The exhibition

For a long time, Manal AlDowayan did not see herself as an artist. Having grown up in the Saudi Aramco residential compound in Dhahran during the 1980s, she witnessed few, if any, examples of full-time artmaking, let alone by women. Confining her pra

For well over four decades, Mao Ishikawa has documented life on the margins of Okinawa, where she was born, as well as those whose presence on the Japanese island has caused great social tension. Some of her early works explored the lives of local ba

Midway across the Emirate of Sharjah lies an uninhabited settlement of houses with a mosque known as Al Madam, built in the 1970s to settle the region’s nomadic people in a modern village. Yet the waves of red sand carried by the wind across the dese

Several leadership changes were announced at Asia’s major art institutions. On April 1, Eugene Tan, the current director of the National Gallery Singapore (NGS) and Singapore Art Museum (SAM), took over as CEO of both institutions from Chong Siak Chi

The Model Minority myth that arose in response to historical events surrounding Asians and Asian Americans during the Second World War has been hard to shake. Not only is the stereotype incorrect as applied against a wide-ranging category that includ

Hansol Foundation – Museum SAN “La Maison de la Lune Brûlée” (The House of the Burning Moon) is a showcase of the charcoal-derived works by South Korean artist Lee Bae, who explores the centuries-old “moonhouse burning” ritual. With themes of renewal

An-My Lê’s latest retrospective traced the artist’s career from 1994 to the present, rendering global conflict with self-reflexive nuance and grace. “Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières,” ranged in subject matter from eerily bu

YOGYAKARTA Chibi-like characters with oversized eyes, anthropomorphic animals, decapitated dinosaurs, and fleshy aliens appear often in the work of Yogyakarta-based artist Roby Dwi Antono. Brimming with surreal imagination, Antono creates worlds fill

When art critic Linda Nochlin published her groundbreaking essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists” in 1971, she shattered a male-centric canon that seldom recognized women’s accomplishments. But despite small progressions, half-a-century l

The mid-February winds feel cooler in the New Territories neighborhood of Fo Tan. The streets are wider and more barren than in Hong Kong’s central districts, and it’s evident why so many artists have established their studios here over the years. Th