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Singapore Art Fair Opens Window onto Middle East Art

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Antonius Subiyanto Wins United UOB Painting of the Year Award

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17 Questions for Filipino Artist José Santos III

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Q&A with American Sculptor Jedd Novatt

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12 Questions for Indonesian Artist Yunizar

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20 Questions for Isaac Julien

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Rome’s MACRO Showcases Indonesian Contemporary Art

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Andre Tan Movie-Theme Artworks Pop

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The Liang Yi Vanities Collection Travels to Beijing’s Summer Palace

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My night with Merlion

Two weeks ago, when I first entered in the Merlion Hotel, Tatzu Nishi’s art installation that is part of the Singapore Biennale, it triggered some childish instincts in me and I wanted to jump around on the bed. Unlike the millions of tourists that come to Singapore and pose by the statue, I’ve never been that enamored with the half fish-half lion beast. But then again, I have never been up the Eiffel Tower despite living in Paris for over 20 years. Buildings and monuments become so much a part of our visual landscape we barely noticed them after a while, which is exactly what Nishi is trying to change with his installations. The Japanese artist, who is based in Germany, creates rooms around well-known monuments to invite viewers to look at them differently, in a way “rediscovering” them. As soon as you walk into the Merlion Hotel, you are taken by the urge to take photos, behaving exactly as a tourist. But Nishi’s installation is more than just bringing us face to face with...

FOCUS Art Fair Returns to London with Contemporary Asian Art

Jaejun Lee Europe's only international art fair dedicated to contemporary Asian art is back at the Saatchi Gallery from 16–19 October 2025. Now in its 4th UK edition, FOCUS Art Fair will showcase work by more than 50 artists from across Asia and its diaspora, spanning countries including China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, and India. This year's edition features over 30 galleries, from One East Asia in Singapore to Hanmi Gallery in London and Seoul. Highlighted artists for 2025 include two distinguished Korean artists: Meekyoung Shin and Jaejun Lee . Shin creates sculptures of Chinese porcelain and Buddha figures —but makes them entirely from soap, exploring ideas of impermanence and cultural change. Lee works with actual porcelain, mixing traditional techniques with contemporary forms and glazes to examine themes of repetition and time. Both artists bridge historical craft traditions with modern art...

Shin Sung Hy': Weaving Paint into Space

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...

Picasso Takes Center Stage: Tate Modern's Theatrical Reimagining of a Master's Legacy

Theatre Picasso, a major exhibition at Tate Modern, brings together familiar works by the Spanish master, from his iconic The Three Dancers (1925) to Weeping Woman (1937) and Nude Woman in a Red Armchair (1932). But what sets this exhibition apart is its "staging" by contemporary artist Wu Tsang and writer and curator Enrique Fuenteblanca. The gallery space has been transformed into a theatrical environment where visitors move through various "theatre" spaces—from storage and backstage to main stage, finally passing through a stage curtain into the audience seating area. Most of the exhibition is presented in dramatically low lighting that allows each artwork to shine. Rather than organizing by chronology or stylistic periods, the show explores themes including The Painter and the Model, The Artist's Studio, and Animal, War and Violence. In The Painter and the Model section, the paintings showcase Picasso's stylistic evolution while highlighting his poss...

Helen Britton, The Artist Jeweller

From a young age, Helen Britton used art as a form of communication and was soon making jewellery. She still has a cow horn bracelet she made when she was 12 and some earrings made from old beads and fuse wire. As an artist-jeweller, Britton approaches her practice without distinguishing between forms of creative production: “Some bodies of work contain jewellery, sculpture and drawings; some only one or another — it depends on what I am trying to say.” Britton is one of the world’s most established artist-jewellers and is known for creating colourful pieces that are just as likely to include recycled plastics as precious stones. “Preciousness is a construct and culturally driven. All materials are interesting and carry their stories with them,” she says. “I choose the materials because of what they have to say and for no other reason.” Over the years, she has set blackened silver rings with diamonds and sapphires, or combined silver and pearls with plastic or glass. Her creations are ...

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