Malini Guha considers how location shooting in recent films set in the city of Kolkata go beyond documentation to reveal the aspirations, desires and anxieties concerning the city’s global future. The University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre, The Power Institute and VisAsia, with support from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Sydney Ideas, ... READ MORE
We are pleased to present a lecture by Matthew Affron, Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Matthew’s lecture will consider Marcel Duchamp’s work Étant donnés (1946-66) as an intervention in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and in terms of Duchamp’s ideas about museums in general. ABOUT THE ... READ MORE
In the context of the Safavid dynasty’s capital city of Isfahan, Sussan Babaie examines the intersection of visual and gustatory experience as a self-aware obsession with ‘taste’. The University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre, The Power Institute and VisAsia, with support from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Sydney Ideas, are proud ... READ MORE
