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If you have news to submit or a comment to make, contact our editor Kate at artradarasia dot com or call us in Hong Kong on +852 6103 0470.
We would also love to hear from you if you are interested in working for us as an intern or a writer and have a passion for art. We would particularly like to work with people based in major cities around Asia.
We are without funding so we are not able to pay but we can promise you lots of exposure to a prestigious readership including top collectors, major galleries, the prinicpal auction houses and research houses, important archives and academic institutions including Ivy League universities.
Brandon said
Hi, I do not know alot about Asian Art, but was hoping you may be able to help me with something. I have recently purchased two Qu Jianxiong abstract paintings from his ex wife’s, now ex husband’s in Americas collection. I was hoping to find out more about the artist since knowledge of him in America is very limited, I can send pictures if you are interested. Thanks, Greetings from America!
Hamja Ahsan said
Would like to inform you all of Other Asias – a Pan-Asian artist initiative based in Lahore (Pakistan) Dhaka (Bangladesh) and London (UK)
Other Asias: Transnational Contemporary Art Currents
‘Should we train our imagination to allow ‘Asia’ to emerge as a continent?’ (Gayatri Spivak, 2008)
Other Asias is an ambitious artist-led initiative that challenges contemporary navigations of Asia as region, as potentiality, as memory, as imagination and investigation through an arena of fluid exhibitionary structures. Our organisation activates chains of exhibitions, film screenings, fictions, forums, performance, plays, walks and talks, historical revisions, reading circles, archives, taxonomies, political vocabularies, public education and transnational circulation.
Formed in late 2008, Other Asias is an open assemblage of cultural practitioners that weaves together reanimated alliances and counter-cartographies. We were dismayed by the systematic mediocrity of the first Asian Arts Triennial held in Manchester 2008, the ossification of official “cross-cultural” departments and new internationalism, the corporate/ NGO strategies of organisations like Asia House and the current superficial commercial booms of Eastern economies.
Other Asias is a grass roots networking organisation that aims to provide up-coming creatives a platform and portal for multi-poplar orbits of exchange. Every current is an ever-flowing investigation, configuring a dynamic new team of visiting artists and writers – generating transformations across localities, communities and continents.
http://www.otherasias.com/
JOIN US ON FACEBOOK: Other Asias – Transnational Contemporary Art Currents
Staci Smith said
On August 1, the melting of Earth’s ice will be illustrated by an interactive public art event in NYC.
People will be invited into an ice environment, created in New York’s Union Square Park by artist Chin Chih Yang. Encouraged to sit on giant blocks of ice, the melting caused by the warmth of the participants’ bodies, will trigger increasingly frantic emergency lights embedded within the ice, making it glow in alarm—a simple yet forceful reminder of how human activity is hastening the melting of the world’s ice caps. 11a.m-7p.m at Union Square Park near 14th St. FREE
Ruang MES 56 said
Dear Kate, we would like you to consider us to be added in Art Radar Asia’s list of friends. And it would be a pleasure for us to submit news about our activities at Ruang MES 56, Yogyakarta.
Ruang MES 56 is a non-profit institution established on February 28, 2002, which is active in the field of photography that emphasizes in the exploratory approach of contemporary photography, both in theory and practice, conceptually and contextually; having the purpose to develop the discourse of contemporary photography sphere in Indonesia.
Ruang MES 56 do several programs, which are Exhibition, Creative Exchange, Workshop, and Archiving. All of these programs are carried out by self-financing and with the support from several donors, either from non-profit institution or from commercial company. All of the programs aim to empower the pop-culture society in Indonesia.
Ruang MES 56 is run by: Agung Nugroho Widhi, Akiq AW, Anang Saptoto, Angki Purbandono, Daniel Satria Koestoro, Dessy Sahara Angelina, Edwin Dolly Roseno, Eko Bhirowo, Jim Allen Abel, Wimo Ambala Bayang and Wok the Rock.
Please check out our website and Kantor Berita (News Agency). Thanks (Ina)
jia said
Dear makers/editors of this website,
thank you for sharing your information about art. I am sure that it has been, and continues to be an invauable resource for those with an interest in the arts, or those within artistic communities who want fresh news about what’s what and who’s who.
However, i feel that you could retain and possibly attract more readers–simply by changing the layout and presentation of your website. Its grey and blue palette does not make for pleasurable reading. Even more so as a website that dedicates itself to the arts, should its layout not be treated with an artistic eye as well?
It is my personal opinion that a simple font (black arial even) on a clean white background will allow any images that you have included in your updates to ‘pop’–art after all is about visual aesthetic. I am a young person, so perhaps my perspective is tampered by things that you might consider ‘frivolous’ and ‘unimportant’-such as website design. I do not mean to impose, so perhaps you could do a quick reader’s poll about how everyone feels about the design.
I do know that, for a young reader (18) like me, a fresher, cleaner design will be an inevitable deciding factor in me not only bookmarking your page, but returning to it often.
Thank you very much for your time.
Regards,
Jia
Art History student
artradar said
Jia
Thanks for leaving your comments and don’t be shy about being 18 because actually we wholeheartedly agree with you. We started this blog as art enthusiasts but with limited technical knowledge and severely limited funds. We would love to have a site which is a more pleasurable aesthetic experience for readers. Unfortunately we set up on a wordpress.com blog with a free theme from a limited choice. If we change the platform we will lose our google ranking and in-coming links. If there is any reader who would be able to help us with improving the look of the site as it is, do contact us at kate at artradarasia dot com. We are not able to pay at this stage but we can promote your services with a link on the site. In the meantime Jia we have tried to remove some of the corporate blue and hope this is a step in the right direction until we can do a redesign.