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Controversial Brisbane Sculpture Divides Opinions A giant public sculpture dubbed the “large, lumpy lady body,” by Australian artist Justene Williams, is stirring the pot in Brisbane. Located in the recently opened Queen’s Wharf precinct, the work is a five-meter-tall bronze of a squatting woman with four breasts,
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The Hong Kong artist employs geometric symbolism to forge uncanny realities. Alex Yiu
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The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, run by the financially burdened Japanese chemical giant DIC Corporation, has announced it will temporarily close in January 2025. DIC’s board of directors issued a public notice on August 28 stating that it will reconvene in December to review its operations, raising
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Alongside hundreds of galleries exhibiting at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center at either Frieze Seoul (Sep 4–7) or KIAF Seoul (Sep 4–8) (or both) the three major gallery districts of the Korean capital (Samchung, Itaewon-Hannam, and Chungdam) will be thronged with contemporary art and its followers.
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Concluding his residency at De Sarthe Gallery, the Hong Kong-based artist creates a techno-religion system that explores our innermost desires. Alex Yiu
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As the third edition of Frieze Seoul (Sep 4–7) and the long-running KIAF Seoul (Sep 4–8) converge at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Gangnam, the Korean capital will be pulsating with contemporary art and its fans. Amid all the openings, talks, and events, the editors
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Hybridity and mythology in the practice of a leading artist from India. Annette Meier
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On August 17, Iranian Armenian abstract painter Sirak Melkonian passed away in Toronto at the age of 93. Melkonian was considered one of the founders of the modern Iranian art movement and was best known for his limited color palette, with works that emphasized lines and forms inspired by nature.
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Frieze and KIAF Organizers Share Highlights In a joint press conference on August 22, the international art fairs Frieze Seoul and KIAF Seoul revealed details about the upcoming events, which will both begin at Gangnam’s COEX Convention Center on September 4. The third edition of Frieze Seoul will feature
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The Zagreb- and Berlin-based curatorial collective What, How & for Whom (WHW), comprising curators Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić, and Sabina Sabolović, has been announced as the artistic directors for the fifth Skulptur Projekte Münster, a major sculpture exhibition in northwestern Germany that occurs once every ten years. The fifth
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The diverse voices of “MZ” South Korean artists continue to contest traditional society. Alex Yiu
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The Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami passed away on August 9 after a two-month battle with myelodysplastic syndrome (a rare blood cancer). The news was announced by Tokyo-based art gallery Nanzuka Underground, which revealed that the 88-year-old had been receiving medical treatment since June, but was
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Feb 18–June 1 Fever Dream The UP Vargas Museum University of the Philippines Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Fever s are our bod ies’ biological defense against illness. They also serve as a metaphor for the calenture of overwrought passion, the heat of the city, or the need to
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Korakrit Arunanondchai nostalgia for unity Bangkok Kunsthalle Bangkok May 31–Oct 31 A cavernous, chamber-like structure eclipsed by traces of black soot and nebulous amber haze stood wide open. Within the immersive work, titled nostalgia for unity (2024), an omnipresent, atmospheric chant echoed throughout the abandoned space of what