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Bug Catching in Asian Art! START: Jun 24, 2021 END: Sep 21, 2021
This exhibition compiles artworks from throughout Asia that feature insects. From cool insects to cute and even unpopular ones, such as flies and cockroaches, this show may change your attitude towards insects. But first, let’s explore some of the different insects you might encounter.
Left:Zong Xitao(China)/Insect Series No.5 (Mantis)[2005]
Right:Sumi Takamasa(Japan)/Armored Cross：Mantis[2002-3]
• 6/24 (Thu.) ~ 9/21 (Tue.)
• 9:30~18:00 (Fri. & Sat. ~20:00)/ last entry: 30 min. before closing
• Closed: Wed.
• Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Art and Culture You Can Enjoy at Home
Due to the pandemic, several public facilities, including museums, art museums and libraries, have started offering services you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home.
Although you can view the collection of the Fukuoka City Museum online, we highly recommend checking out the seven famous exhibits like Kuroda Nagamasa’s helmets that you can view in 3D. You can enjoy viewing these pieces from angles that you wouldn’t normally have access to. The virtual museum tour is popular. The Fukuoka Art Museum regularly posts content on its official blog and YouTube channel. You can watch behind-the-scenes video of how exhibits are designed and swapped out and to listen to commentary from the museum’s curators. You can also watch instructional videos on crafts you can try at home.
UOB s art contest returns with hefty cash prizes
published : 24 May 2021 at 04:30
The United Overseas Bank (Thai) is inviting aspiring and professional Thai artists to enter the 12th UOB Painting Of The Year competition to vie for cash prizes worth 1.68 million baht.
The winning piece of the 2010 contest by Pannaphan Yodmanee. photos courtesy of UOB Painting of the Year
Hailed as one of Southeast Asia s most prestigious annual art awards, the competition is divided into categories emerging artists who are pursuing an art education or a career in art or those who paint for pleasure and established artists with a portfolio who have shown their works in an exhibition or were represented by a gallery in an art contest or have received an art award.
Hand in Hand ‘New Landscape’ series 4, 2017
Umi also highlights two mixed media works on watercolour paper, entitled
Hand in Hand ‘New Landscape’ Series 4 and
Hand in Hand New Landscape’ Series 5, which were exhibited at the Art Seasons Gallery in Singapore, 2017
. These works portray the subconscious as a woman/mother with the daily routines of motherhood we subconsciously follow each day. It describes a day in the life as a mother. It featured a group of women who have been visually portrayed in a combination of classical and modern times, and they are surrounded by various things in their surroundings; the business of life that struggles between responsibilities, self-interest and career.