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MEL HSIEH & ITEM IDEM, COLD SINGLE, 2019, single channel video with sound, 5min:39sec, edition of 6. Image courtesy the artist.

Preview ASIA NOW Paris Asian Art Fair

This year in its fifth edition, ASIA NOW is the first European art fair dedicated to promoting and showcasing the...

Chiharu Shiota, Where Are We Going?, 2017/2019, white wool, wire, rope Installation view of "Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019. Courtesy Galerie Templon, Paris/Brussels. Photo: Kioku Keizo.

Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles at Mori Art Museum

Tokyo's Mori Art Museum holds the largest survey exhibition of Chiharu Shiota's work to date, featuring her 25-year oeuvre.

Saatchi Gallery (Duke Of York Barracks), Chelsea, London. Image © Jim Linwood 2008 | flickr

Preview START Art Fair 2019 at Saatchi Gallery

The 6th START Art Fair in London champions emerging artists from 30 countries.

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.

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.

"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.

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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.