Simryn Gill - Forking Tongues (1992) Silver plate cutlery and dried chili peppers, 600 x 600 cm. © Simryn Gill. Courtesy Queensland Art Gallery Foundation.
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MELBOURNE
Howard Arkley
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA |
The spread of suburbia into the countryside after the housing shortage of World War II was an unmistakable fact of life in Australia as people sought more space. But the effects of 1950s conformity fermented in the psyche of...
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BEIJING
Wang Xingwei: Large Rowboat
GALERIE URS MEILE BEIJING-LUCERNE |
Wang Xingwei’s latest painting exhibition at Urs Meile in Beijing has aroused enough excitement to lure back detractors of the medium who feel that artistic value is overshadowed by skyrocketing market values. Named after the working title of one of his paintings, “Large Rowboat” hews to...
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BANGKOK
Thakon Khao sa-ad: Between
GALLERY VER |
The perpetual-motion media-induced collision of the everyday and the extraordinary is the unifying premise behind Thakon Khao sa-ad’s recent series of paintings, five of which were shown recently at Bangkok’s newly-established...
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LONDON
Amrita Sher-Gil & Vivan Sundaram
TATE MODERN |
Born in Budapest in 1913 to the photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil and his Hungarian wife, Amrita Sher-Gil led a short, fantastic life that traced the arc between World Wars I and II. Organized by Tate curator Emma Dexter, this is the first major exhibition to bring together painting from...
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WASHINGTON D.C.
Simryn Gill: Perspectives
ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY |
Simryn Gill is the quintessential postcolonial artist, less so because of her transnational biography – Indian extraction, born in Singapore, raised in Malaysia and now based in Sydney – than because of her deep engagement with the history of colonial expansion in Southeast Asia. She obliquely traces...
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BOOK REVIEW
Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
As the first publication to grapple with the contemporary art of India and Pakistan in a single volume, Yashodhara Dalmia and Salima Hashmi’s Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan is a landmark in the relatively modest field of art history of modern and...
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