A Balinese artist and temple priest builds on her father’s legacy.
SIOBHAN CAMPBELL
Between February and March 2011, with the support of The Patatas, I conducted a photography workshop with some 34 students in Nepal, most of which were from underprivileged backgrounds. During the month-long course, students kept a journal of the lessons they learnt and the reflections they experienced. This is an excerpt from the journal of one of my students, Trishakti Manav.
DEBBY NG
Comparing the art of people-watching in Singapore and New York
POOJA MAKHIJANI
Between February and March 2011, with the support of The Patatas, I conducted a photography workshop with some 34 students in Nepal, most of which were from underprivileged backgrounds. During the month-long course, students kept a journal of the lessons they learnt and the reflections they experienced. This is an excerpt from the journal of one of my students, Meena Nepali.
DEBBY NG
The bucolic village of Patangarh in Central India is unremarkable at first glance. But there, in almost every family, lives an artist highly skilled in a traditional style of tribal art threatened by modernisation.
DAWN TAN
With over 33 million views to date, “Old Boy” is leading the way for non-mainstream movies to win over audiences – via the Internet.
BERNICE TANG
Bulu Imam is a man on an unlikely mission: to save the tribal way of life in India. And he's going to do it with art.
DAWN TAN
World rallies to demand the release of China’s most famous artist, who is held by Beijing amid a wide crackdown on government critics.
DEBU BARVE
The left-brain / right-brain concept has made way for the ArtScience fusion celebrated in the latest private museum in Singapore.
VIVIENNE KHOO
Something hideous happened in Israel. A family of five were murdered in their home and that was just the beginning.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
The Oscar-nominated Israeli film Ajami depicted a gritty and complex situation of Jews and Arabs living side by side in the mixed city of Jaffa. But how faithful is the film to the reality of the real Ajami neighbourhood?
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Chinese erotic art is a little known tradition because much of it was destroyed during the Mao era. asia! brings you a selection.
ZHANG ZIHAN
For a moment, leave behind what divides Jersualem and take a walk through the new Mamilla with its creator, envisioned as a meeting place across cultures.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Now 74, Steven N.S. Cheung, one of today’s most influential economists, reflects on the trials and tribulations of calligraphy -- and finds himself at his creative best.
STEVEN N.S. CHEUNG (Translated by Staff Writer)
Performance artist locks himself up in a wooden instrument for prisoners in the ancient times, and sticks 100-yuan notes all over his body.
JEFF LEE