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Martell Photo Prize Nominees Go on Show

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ArtScience Museum Presents 50 Best National Geographic Photos

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Art Stage Singapore 2014 Adds Country Platforms

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Jade Watches enjoying the spotlight

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Nils Christe on SDT’s Organ Concerto, Working with Nureyev

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Growing Affordable Art Fair Singapore set for Nov 21-24

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Christie’s Jonathan Stone on First Shanghai, Mumbai Auctions

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Absolut Canvas @ National Museum of Singapore

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My Night with the Merlion

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Throughout his career, Korean artist Shin Sung Hy (1948–2009) questioned painting's fundamental nature—canvas, support, and paint—through material experimentation that transformed flat surfaces into sculptural objects. A Solution to Continuity (Solution de Continuite), 1994, Acrylic and oil on canvas Running September 4 to October 18, 2025, at Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space, the solo exhibition "Body of Work" will showcase how i the late Korean artist's revolutionary approach to painting blurred boundaries between two and three dimensions. Shin's practice evolved through four distinct periods: the “monochrome hyper-realistic painting” series, jute paintings (1974–1982), “collaged paperwork” series, collage (1983–1992), “sewn-canvas” series, couturage (1993–1997), and “knotted-canvas” series, nouage(1997–2009). The exhibition focuses on his last two series . In his couturage works, he painted canvases, cut them into strips, then stitched them back togeth...

FOCUS Art Fair Returns to London with Contemporary Asian Art

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