Projects tagged
East Asia
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Multibasket – No One Wins
Read more: Multibasket – No One WinsOn the small island of Teshima in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, Multibasket – No One Wins invites visitors to reconsider competition, collaboration, and the intersection of art and play. Created by conceptual artists Jasmina Llobet & Luis Pons for the…
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Myanmar’s Artists Captured the Spirit of the Resistance. Now They’re Continuing the Fight from Abroad
Read more: Myanmar’s Artists Captured the Spirit of the Resistance. Now They’re Continuing the Fight from AbroadChuu Wai Nyein felt an overwhelming sense of guilt when she first arrived in Paris from Myanmar at the end of April. “I was pushed to leave the country, but it was not how I wanted to leave,” says the…
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This Taiwanese Calligrapher Brings a Message of Freedom to the Met
Read more: This Taiwanese Calligrapher Brings a Message of Freedom to the MetThe boulders hiding in the alcove of Tong Yang-Tze’s apartment testify to this Taiwanese calligrapher’s daunting perfectionism. They are paper — remnants of discarded artworks, crumpled together like used tissues and soaked into inky wads of pulp. Hundreds of old…
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‘Orheim, Light of Life’ exhibition with three generations
Read more: ‘Orheim, Light of Life’ exhibition with three generations[Translated by Google translator] The exhibition ‘Orheim, Light of Life’, featuring three generations of a grandfather, daughter, and grandson, will be held at Gallery and Sapgyo near Sapgyo Station in Yesan County (South Korea) until the 17th of next month.…
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Unleashing the Power of Art Through Artistic Resources: PIGMENT TOKYO Creates a Canvas Embracing People, Knowledge, and the Art of Tomorrow
Read more: Unleashing the Power of Art Through Artistic Resources: PIGMENT TOKYO Creates a Canvas Embracing People, Knowledge, and the Art of TomorrowEstablished in 2015 in the Tennōzu neighborhood of Tokyo, and attracting industry professionals and art enthusiasts from both Japan and abroad, PIGMENT TOKYO has emerged as an art supply store specializing in the materials and tools used in traditional Japanese…
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Bondage in Shanghai
Read more: Bondage in ShanghaiThis is a photographic work of Shanghai during the period of the city’s lockdown, in which the artist uses rope as a medium to explore the themes of government coercion and individual survival. In the image, the artist ties a…
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Maman Sculpture
Read more: Maman SculptureThrough the use of mythical and archetypal iconography, Bourgeois translated her encounters into a very individualized symbolic imagery, employing things such as swirls, arachnids, cages, surgical equipment, and sewed appendages to represent the feminine mind, beauty, and mental agony. The…
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Memes, Jokes and Cats: South Koreans Use Parody for Political Protest
Read more: Memes, Jokes and Cats: South Koreans Use Parody for Political ProtestAs South Koreans took to the streets this month demanding the ousting of their president, some found an unexpected outlet to express their fury: jokes and satire. They hoisted banners and flags with whimsical messages about cats, sea otters and…
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Embracing the Elements: Tong Wenmin’s ‘FLYING THE WIND’ and the Art of Human-Nature Interaction
Read more: Embracing the Elements: Tong Wenmin’s ‘FLYING THE WIND’ and the Art of Human-Nature InteractionTong Wenmin is a Chinese performance artist affiliated with works exploring movement, interaction, and humanity. Her art is a relationship between human behavior and the natural world, a round dynamic between physicality and environmental elements. One of her most compelling…
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Raise Your Umbrellas: How Denise Ho went from Cantopop queen to pro-democracy activist
Read more: Raise Your Umbrellas: How Denise Ho went from Cantopop queen to pro-democracy activistIn Hong Kong in 2014 the song Raise Your Umbrella by Denise Ho and Anthong Wong became an anthem for the pro-democracy movement known as the Umbrella Revolution. The song was written after police fired tear gas into the crowds…