These illustrations for Quadrangle’s 1948 edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s 17th-century classic Selected Fables were done by Alexander Calder in a line art style evocative of his figurative metal wire sculptures.
Can books have the impact of an exhibition? That’s the question posed by Sharmini Pereira in this account of Mobile Library, which brought publications from Hong Kong’s Asia Art Archive to Jaffna in Sri Lanka.
In this documentary video, Roslisham Ismail, a.k.a. Ise, visits a popular Kelantanese pati street food stall, run by the gregarious Shamsul, and observes the preparation of some local favorites for a group of loyal customers.
In 1972, the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition Amsterdam Paris Düsseldorf featured young talent from Europe, including Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Casting a critical eye over the Guggenheim UBS MAP project itself, Philippine critic and curator Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez poses challenging questions about the purpose of transnational curating and the meanings of “Asia” from an American perspective.
When art and officialdom collide, the results can be frustrating but also revealing. Choreographer and critic Donna Miranda tracks the fate of Working Artist Group, a portfolio held up in customs en route to Manila.
Sometimes items in the archives have little or no identifying information.
Fusing speculative fiction with historical fact, Bangalore-based artist Abhishek Hazra presents a series of extracts from the diary of a member of the Kankurgachi Balloonists Society, fragments that appear to detail an unusual scientific experiment.