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Installation view of MIT JAI INN's Untitled (Patchworks), 2000, for

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Mit Jai Inn: Patchworlds

A showcase of Mit’s chronicles of color and geometry. Marybeth Stock

Exterior view of “All the World’s a Mosque” at JAOU Tunis, 2015. Courtesy JAOU Tunis.

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All The World’s A Mosque: JAOU Tunis 2015

The third edition of the JAOU Tunis arts festival, which took place during the last week of May, was inevitably framed by the tragic events that struck the Bardo National Museum in mid-March this y... Alexandra MacGilp

Mikala Tai, who was appointed director of Sydney's 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art on June 9, and will assume her new role in September. Courtesy 4A Centre for Contemporary As

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4A Centre For Contemporary Asian Art Appoints New Director

On June 9, Sydney’s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art announced the appointment of curator and academic Mikala Tai as incoming director of the distinctive institution. The new role wi... Denise Tsui

ALFREDO JAAR, We Shall Bring Forth New Life (Umashimenkana), 2013, mixed-media installation, 12 blackboards, video projection, plexiglass structure and chalk, dimensions variable.

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A Space for Mourning and Hope: Interview With Alfredo Jaar

Chilean-born artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar's public interventions are at once arresting and contemplative. Helen Morgan

Kimsooja, who was honored with the 2015 Ho-Am Prize on June 1 in Seoul, in recognition of her contribution to arts and culture. Photo by Viktor Bentley. Courtesy Axel Vervoordt Gal

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Kimsooja Wins Samsung’s Ho-Am Prize For The Arts

On June 1, New York-based video artist Kimsooja was awarded the 2015 Ho-Am Prize in Seoul. The prize, established in 1990 by the Korean conglomerate Samsung and named after the pen-name of its lat... Hanae Ko

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“Hong Kongese”

When restaurants try to host exhibitions, much can go wrong. HG Masters

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Nortse: Paper Dreams

Linking the core principles of Tibetan Buddhism with ideas of cultural identity, mass production, alienation and environmental degradation. Crystal Tong

The Propeller Group. (Left to right) Phunam, Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Matt Lucero. Courtesy The Propeller Group.

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Playing with Guns and Ballistics Gel: Interview with The Propeller Group’s Matt Lucero

Denise Tsui

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A Tribute to Mary Ellen Mark: A Humanist at Heart

Eminent American photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015), whose prolific career spanned five decades, passed away on May 25 at the age of 75 after suffering from myelodysplastic syndrome, a ... Billy Kung

IAN WOO, Softly as the Morning Sunrise, 2015, acrylic on linen, 200 x 180 cm. Courtesy the artist and Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore.

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Tomio Koyama Singapore Closes With Ian Woo Solo Show

Art appreciation is an uneven and integrative learning process. Marybeth Stock

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IAN WOO, We Have Crossed The Lake, 2009, acrylic on linen, 194 x 244 cm. Courtesy Singapore Art Museum.

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“After Utopia: Revisiting The Ideal In Asian Contemporary Art”

“After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art” is the enduring quest for paradise in a troubled world of convoluted political systems and failed social principles. Denise Tsui

LENG HONG, Spring Musing-V, 2013, oil on canvas,100 x 80 cm. Courtesy Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong.

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Leng Hong's “As Last Night Twinkle Stars, As Last Night Blows The Breeze”

The exhibition presents a selection of Chinese-French painter Leng Hong’s most recent works. Vasavi Seethepalli

Entrance to the National Pavilion of Iraq housed in Ca’ Dandolo, a 16th-century building overlooking the Grand Canal in the San Tomasso District of Venice. Copyright Ruya Foundatio

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National Pavilion of Iraq at the 56th Venice Biennale

“Invisible Beauty” and “Traces of Survival” Jolaine Frizzell