Art fiend: The progressive quantum leap
From a slow evolution in the 1980s-90s to a rapid incline in the last decade, contemporary Asian art has grown exponentially due to a mushrooming of regional biennials and triennials. This has drawn attention to Asian cities as alternative art centres, thereby leading to the building of new contemporary art museums along with initial international recognition and success of Asian artists of Chinese

Interview: Primitive purity
Experiences, whether pleasurable or distressing, eventually fade away with time and quietly slip into the unconscious where they reside indefinitely. The only portal that reincarnates this elapsed information is a dream that indiscriminately reveals trivial occurrences or bizarre events from the past. However, lucid dreaming is an exception, where the dreamer can consciously trigger inspiration

Foreign palette: The modern face of Vietnamese art
A few years ago when a clutch of Bangladeshi painters exhibited their works at a local Karachi gallery, there was no common political or social theme or style. No message of any significance. However, I noticed there was a remarkable similarity between the creations of one particular artist with what can be found in Oaxaca, Mexico. It wasn’t as if the man from Dacca had spent any time in Vera Cruz and