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It’s Hidden in the Details: Artist Interview with Mai Saporsantos
By Jose Naval

Reinventing the Stock: Langgeng Art Foundation Launches “The Perfect Storm”
By The Cartellino Team

How We Talk About Talking About Contemporary Art
By The Cartellino Team
As if the idea of the white cube wasn’t enough, there isn’t anything like dense verbiage to discourage people from feeling welcome.

Time Is a Medium in Mars Bugaoan’s “Appear Disappear 1/2 1/4”
By Jose Naval

Art Collecting 101: Consider Photobooks
By The Cartellino Team
There’s an intention to the production—part and parcel with it as an art object—that confers a tangible immediacy of the artist's…

8 Asian Art Events You Can View Online Now
By The Cartellino Team
If you're looking for something new, you might enjoy these eight online art events, listed by galleries, that use livestreams, gifs, and more to bring…

A Beginner's Guide to Framing and Staple Styles
By Jose Naval
Take it with a grain of salt when someone tells you there aren’t any “hard and fast rules” for framing. It’s not untrue, but…

Kichang Choi Reimagines Love Through Forms
By The Cartellino Team
Motifs of repetition and rupture undergird an eclectic array of subjects in this visual account of love—or, better, of the myriad ways we find…

Identity, Memory, and History Through the Lens of Three Contemporary Artists
By The Cartellino Team
In a group exhibition at Pace Gallery Hong Kong, Zhang Xiaogang, Mao Yan, and Qiu Xiaofei explore the notions of identity, memory, and history through…

Sequential Practice in Abstraction by Albert Yonathan Setyawan
By The Cartellino Team
Indonesian artist Albert Yonathan Setyawan creates symmetry through sequences in 'Variations on Symmetry'.

Al Held Taps Beyond the Five Senses in Abstraction
By The Cartellino Team
In 'Modern Maverick', Al Held's works access a "reality in which our five senses are of little use". 

Ricky Francisco Sees Beyond Aesthetic and Meaning in Art Curation
By Francesca Testa
It's not easy to be someone like Ricky Francisco. He chooses to stick to his virtues all while taking chances with…

How Art Movements Matter to Asian Contemporary Arts
By Francesca Testa
There's one thing art movements have in common: they were all born in the west and are products of western thinking,…

Tsong Pu Goes Beyond Mainstream and Minimalism
By The Cartellino Team
In 'Illusions of the Universe', Tsong Pu allows a larger interpretation of his works and its relatability to reality.

Cut & Curated: Seeing is to Feeling as It is to Believing
By The Cartellino Team
In this ediiton of Cut & Curated, we take seeing into a gratification of senses through patterns and textures.

Cris Villanueva Jr. Goes Beyond Meanings in Abstraction
By The Cartellino Team
Cris Villanueva Jr. takes on the humor of deception and engages in a silent discourse of substance and revelations.

Cut & Curated: The Case for Absolute Abstraction
By The Cartellino Team
Be it through the depth of its significance to the complexity of its creation, abstraction is defined not simply…

The World Through Rose-Colored Lenses According to Olivia d'Aboville
By The Cartellino Team
Inspired by the color field movement, Olivia d'Aboville diverts from monochromatic palettes to bright hues of handwoven abaca and polyester.

Experimental Complexities in the Creations of Ju Ting
By The Cartellino Team
In Scales, Ju Ting creates a new breed of abstraction through her works that are carefully crafted and…

Huseyin Sami Explores The Process Of Creation
By The Cartellino Team
Chroma presents the physical and tactile nature of painting for Sami and also reveals a preoccupation with exploring the spatial qualities…

10 Contemporary Artists And Iconic Album Arts They Made
By Cielo Serale
Among the many album arts we've all come across with, a good lot is done by contemporary artists or have been appropriated from their works. Here are…