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Faced with marginalization and disinterest, Asian artists living in 1920s and 1930s Paris are now the subject of a major new ...
National Gallery Singapore’s first major exhibition of the year, City Of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s, turns the page on this lesser-known chapter of art history. Featuring nearly 200 ...
In the “Sites of Exhibition” section, the focus turns to how Asian artists carved out space within the Paris art world. Liu Kang’s “View of Sacré-Cœur” (1931) and Chen’s “Well in ...
SINGAPORE -- Getting noticed in crowded 1920s Paris was not easy, but, judging by a landmark exhibition, Tsuguharu Foujita managed it. In black-and-white photographs, the Japanese painter ...
I'd last visited Paris in 2019; since then, I'd heard and read of a striking rise in the prominence of Asian food, art, and fashion in the city. During this year's Fashion Week, for instance ...
As France and China celebrate the strong ties between the two countries with the state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Paris last week, France’s main Asian art museum – Guimet Museum ...
Zurich’s Hauser & Wirth recently inaugurated its latest outpost in Paris’ tony 8th arrondissement Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Photo: Nicolas Brasseur Paris is perhaps best known for its place in ...
Oil on canvas, 72.7 × 91 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Crèvecœur, Paris. Photo: Mark Blower Asian painters, particularly those from the ultra-contemporary generation (born after 1974), are ...
City Of Others: Asian Artists In Paris, 1920s-1940s opens on April 2 and runs through to Aug 17. Bringing together more than 220 artworks, ranging from furniture to jewellery, as well as some 200 ...
Paris’s slate-grey zinc rooftops are a key part of the French capital’s visual identity. They have long inspired painters and ... to get this all-important recognition from the UN body.
“We thought, ‘Well, if our story is about Asian artists in Paris, we should map their ... for the vast majority of migrant artists. In recognition of this, a section of the Singapore ...