Painting
- Art, Art and design, Culture, India, Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, Sculpture, South and Central Asia
A Story of South Asian Art review – banging sculpture marred by dreary neighbours
Royal Academy, London Mrinalini Mukherjee’s surreal spins on Indian folk and sacred art are powerfully fascina…
- Art, Art and design, Aung San Suu Kyi, Birmingham, Culture, Exhibitions, Global development, Human rights, Myanmar, Painting, Prisons, Protest, South and Central Asia, UK news, Video art, World news
‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin
The artist, who has an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, created a unique body of work from jail unifor…
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Arpita Singh: Remembering review – beautiful chaos reigns in India’s tumultuous past
Serpentine North gallery, LondonHugely complex and infinitely layered figurative paintings dominate in a show …
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‘Our people were so innovative’: Māori art celebrated in landmark book
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of Māori art showcases creative work across a diverse range of mediumsA new…
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Killed birds, rotting sculpture and a PM’s execution: the Pakistani artists who defied a dictator
A dazzling exhibition of Pakistan’s art and architecture – some of it never before loaned outside the country …
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700-year-old drunken princes scroll fetches £32m in Hong Kong
Painting by government official Ren Renfa bears seals of several Chinese emperorsA 700-year-old Chinese painte…
- Afghanistan, Art, Art and design, Culture, Global development, Painting, Protest, South and Central Asia, Street art, World news
Artlords, not warlords – how Kabul’s artists battle for the streets
Muralists are covering the Afghan capital’s blast walls with agitprop imagery and calling out corruptionFrom t…