Uncovered from the treasure trove of QAGOMA Research Library’s Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) Archive, a selection of ‘Exquisite Corpse’ drawings from the APT1 artists’ retreat is currently on display in the Research Library at GOMA until 25 April 2022 during ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10). ‘The First Asia Pacific Triennial of…
From enigmatic artworks to repurposed images, I’m sure many can testify to similar experiences of being introduced to visual artists and its many ‘genres’ via their record collection. In the second in the series — Sleevage: Collaborations between art and music — these musical conduits highlight the compact lessons in the history of art and…
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Spanning many major art movements, the latest QAGOMA Library display — Sleevage: Collaborations between art and music — celebrates the unique and accessible art form of album sleeve art. Creating a unified package of complex and intuitive meanings, these rich and imaginative miniature canvases have provided visual artists with populist exposure, and musicians the intellectual…
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The Art Pal Postcard Project 2020 celebrated the important role that art and creativity played in our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic last year — so what sparked the idea for this project? Visit the Art Pal Postcard Project online 2020 was a strange and challenging year. It was a year that compelled us to…
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Nicknamed ‘the Crystal Ball of Pop’ Interview magazine was established in October 1969, initially to review films. In his usual evasive and ironic fashion, Andy Warhol (1928–87) gave various accounts of the reason for the birth of Interview: it was to give his younger Factory friends ‘something to do’, or to contribute to his already active…
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A frog skin is one of the fascinating and surprising items collected by the QAGOMA Research Library, and can be found specifically in the file of Mella Jaarsma, the Netherlands-born artist living in Indonesia. The skin accompanies the preliminary sketches for her ‘The Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3) proposal, Hi inlander 1999,…
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