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#SEASpotlight Talk, "The Globalisation of Art Markets: Stress Points and Growth Factor of a Regional Market" with Emi Eu and Tim Etchells, at S.E.A. Focus, an STPI Project, January 2019, Gillman Barracks, Singapore. Screenshot by ASIA.

Talking Art

#SEASpotlight | The Globalisation of Art Markets

by STPI, Singapore

Biennales

Artist Highlights from the Bangkok Art Biennale 2022

"CHAOS : CALM" reflects on the world's tumultuous times, offering glimpses of hope in an era of geopolital shifts and ecological emergency.

Cover of racy Jawi novel published by Qalam Press, Singapore, as shown by Faris Joraimi, Singapore. Image courtesy Shubigi Rao.

Biennales

Asia-Pacific, Central and West Asia at the 59th Venice Biennale

Biennales

6 Asian exhibitions to look forward to at the 60th Venice Biennale

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

Exhibitions

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.

Biennales

Asia-Pacific at the 58th Venice Biennale

National pavilions and collateral events representing Asia-Pacific countries at the Venice Biennale in 2019.

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.

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