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Bani Abidi, And They Died Laughing, 2016, watercolour on paper, 8.5 x 11 in. © Bani Abidi. Image courtesy the artist & Experimenter, Kolkata.

“They Died Laughing”: Bani Abidi at Gropius Bau

Bani Abidi’s work takes inspiration from everyday life, focusing on its darkly absurd aspects which she highlights in her moving...

Pushpamala N, Sunhere Sapne (Golden Dreams), 1998, hand-tinted black and white photograph. Shumita and Arani Bose Collection, NY.

Moving Still: Performative Photography in India at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The exhibition features Indian artists whose lens-based practices explore gender, religion and sexual identity.

Pavilion of Pakistan at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Photo © Riccardo Tosetto Photography.

Curator Zahra Khan on Pakistan at the 58th Venice Biennale

Pakistan Pavilion curator Zahra Khan provides insights into Naiza Khan's project for the Venince Biennale 2019.

Tiffany Chung, The Vietnam Exodus History Learning Project: the exodus, the camps and the half-lived lives, 2017, watercolor on paper. Courtesy the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York. The Vietnam Exodus History Learning Project is carried out in collaboration with Hồ Hưng, Huỳnh Quốc Bảo, Lê Nam Đy, Nguyễn Hoàng Long, Đặng Quang Tiến, Phạm Ái, Võ Châu, and Hoàng Vy. © Tiffany Chung

Vietnam, Past is Prologue: Tiffany Chung at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

In an unprecendented exhibition in Washington, Tiffany Chung tells Vietnam War's history through Vietnamese eyes.

"Manora Field Notes" by Naiza Khan, Pavilion of Pakistan at the 58th Venice Biennale. Installation view of Sticky Rice and Other Stories, 2019. Photo © Riccardo Tosetto Photography.

Manora Field Notes: Naiza Khan talks art, cities and migration

Naiza Khan talks about her solo presentation in the inaugural Pakistan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019.

Etel Adnan, Hyper Espace, 1964, ink on paper, 9.7 x 14.6 cm. Image courtesy the artist & Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut.

Writing is Drawing, Drawing is Writing: Etel Adnan et les modernes

ASIA profiles Etel Adnan on the occasion of her exhibition at MUDAM Luxembourg.

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ASIA | Art Spectacle International Asia is an independent online magazine covering contemporary art from Asia-Pacific to the Middle East.

Founder and Editor C. A. Xuân Mai Ardia is a Vietnamese-Italian from Padova, Italy. She currently resides near Venice, Italy, but she has lived around the world for more than 20 years. London was her home throughout university and her first forays in the art world and gallery work, until she moved to Shanghai in 2006 where she worked for Pearl Lam Galleries (then Contrasts Gallery) until 2009. She has lived between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Padova, Italy in 2009-2016, where she worked at Galerie Qyunh, Craig Thomas Gallery and contributed to Art Radar.

Mai holds a BA in Chinese | History of Art and Archaeology and an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, as well as an MSc in Development Studies | Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the School of Development, Innovation and Change (SDIC), University of Bologna, Italy. She has worked in the conservation of world cultural heritage in Rome and in contemporary art galleries in London, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City. Her articles have been published in Art Review Asia, Art Radar, The Culture Trip and CoBo Social.

Mai joined the Art Radar team as Copy Editor in May 2013, and became Staff Writer in November of the same year. Continuing to contribute her writing to Art Radar, she took up the role of Managing Editor from November 2015 to December 2018, when Art Radar ceased publication.

To continue on and contribute to the dissemination of contemporary art ideas and practices from Asia, Mai founded ASIA in Spring 2019.