Executive Editor
Majella Munro
Japan
Majella Munro is an art historian, journalist and Japanologist, whose research focuses on censorship and cultural repression. She is interested in art production under totalitarian political regimes, inter- and trans-national exchange within the avant-garde, and the sociological study of erotic art. Majella completed PhD research on the Surrealist movement in Japan in 2011. She teaches and lectures at the University of Essex and will be academic visitor in the department of the History of Art at the University of Oxford during Michelmas 2011. Her first book, on Japanese erotic art, was published by Erotic Review Books in November 2008. More information can be found on her website, majellamunro.com
email munro@modernartasia.com
Majella Munro
Japan
Majella Munro is an art historian, journalist and Japanologist, whose research focuses on censorship and cultural repression. She is interested in art production under totalitarian political regimes, inter- and trans-national exchange within the avant-garde, and the sociological study of erotic art. Majella completed PhD research on the Surrealist movement in Japan in 2011. She teaches and lectures at the University of Essex and will be academic visitor in the department of the History of Art at the University of Oxford during Michelmas 2011. Her first book, on Japanese erotic art, was published by Erotic Review Books in November 2008. More information can be found on her website, majellamunro.com
email munro@modernartasia.com
Editor
Amy Jane Barnes
China
Amy Jane Barnes is an honourary visiting fellow in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. She graduated with a PhD in Museum Studies form the University of Leicester in 2010, which examined collection interpretation and the display of the visual culture of the Chinese cultural revolution in British museums. Prior to this she was curatorial assistant at the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. Recently she has co-edited National Museums: new studies from around the world (Routledge, 2010), The Thing About Museums (Routledge, 2011), and Narrating Objects (Routledge, 2012). More information can be found on her website, amyjanebarnes.wordpress.com
email barnes@modernartasia.com
Amy Jane Barnes
China
Amy Jane Barnes is an honourary visiting fellow in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. She graduated with a PhD in Museum Studies form the University of Leicester in 2010, which examined collection interpretation and the display of the visual culture of the Chinese cultural revolution in British museums. Prior to this she was curatorial assistant at the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. Recently she has co-edited National Museums: new studies from around the world (Routledge, 2010), The Thing About Museums (Routledge, 2011), and Narrating Objects (Routledge, 2012). More information can be found on her website, amyjanebarnes.wordpress.com
email barnes@modernartasia.com
Peer Reviewers
Roshna Kapadia
South Asia
Roshna Kapadia has worked as an editor, writer, and translator at various Washington DC area research organizations. She has a B.A. from Tufts University in International Relations, and an M.A. in South Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work as a docent at the Freer and Sackler galleries (Smithsonian Institution) from 2005-2010 sparked an interest in Asian art. Currently, she studies art history at George Mason University, with a focus on South Asia.
Yvonne Low
Singapore, Malaysia. Indonesia
Yvonne Low is a PhD candidate with the University of Sydney, Department of Art History and Theory. She has degrees in Art History from the University of Melbourne (2003) and University of Sydney (2009) with a specialization in Singapore and has tutored courses in Asian Art History in Singapore at the Nanyang Technological University, School of Art Design and Media. She writes occasionally for local and regional magazines such asConfabulation and C-Arts, and has published essays in The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art catalogue, Modern Art Asia, the Journal of Maritime Geopolitics and Culture, and others. Her present PhD project compares the ways gender has been articulated in discourses of power through the possession, circulation and creation of visual representations in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Cristin McKnight Sethi
India and South Asia
Cristin McKnight Sethi is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley whose research focuses on South Asian art of the early modern to contemporary periods. Her interests include global histories of collecting and exhibiting South Asian objects, art made during the British Raj, and the politics and art historical predicament of “folk” art practices. Her Master’s thesis (University of Texas at Austin, 2008),“Rajah of Bhurtpore in Durbar”: Photographic Image-Making and Royal Practice in Colonial India, explores the shifting meaning of a photographic print as it moves through space and time. She is currently researching her dissertation on phulkari embroidery from Punjab.
Virginia Moon
Korea
In 2010 Virgina Moon completed a PhD in the department of Art History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, entitled “The Grafting of a Canon: The Politics of Korea’s National Treasures and the Formation of an Art History”. Virginia also holds degrees in East Asian History and Art History from Harvard and Yale respectively. She has taught and presented her research widely, and is currently an adjunct at Mount san Antonio College, Walnut, California. She is also active as a translator, contributing to the development of the Freer and Sackler Galleries scholarly resources on Korean ceramics.
Rajesh K Singh
India
Rajesh Kumar Singh is an independent art historian and art critic based in Baroda, India. He has studied at Patna University and holds a post-graduate degree in art criticism from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. Rajesh was Assistant Archivist (Cultural Archives) and Instructional Designer (Cultural Informatics Laboratory) of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. Subsequently, he was Senior Art Historian in a subsidiary of Zee Telefilms, Mumbai, and a faculty member at Meeruth and Maharaja Sayajirao Universities. Rajesh has research interests in both the ancient and contemporary arts of India. On the subject of modern and contemporary Indian art, Rajesh has authored about three dozen articles in Indian journals, art magazines, catalogues, and newspapers.
Hyejong Yoo
Korea
Hyejong Yoo holds a Ph.D from the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at Cornell University. Her dissertation, "Democracy as the Legitimate 'Form' and 'Content': Reimagining Art into Minjung Misul.", focused on minjung misul ("the people's art"), the most prominent Korean art movement in the 1980s. Her writing and interviews have appeared in Invisible Culture, Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon: The Fourth Auckland Triennial, and Misul gwa saenggak.
Roshna Kapadia
South Asia
Roshna Kapadia has worked as an editor, writer, and translator at various Washington DC area research organizations. She has a B.A. from Tufts University in International Relations, and an M.A. in South Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work as a docent at the Freer and Sackler galleries (Smithsonian Institution) from 2005-2010 sparked an interest in Asian art. Currently, she studies art history at George Mason University, with a focus on South Asia.
Yvonne Low
Singapore, Malaysia. Indonesia
Yvonne Low is a PhD candidate with the University of Sydney, Department of Art History and Theory. She has degrees in Art History from the University of Melbourne (2003) and University of Sydney (2009) with a specialization in Singapore and has tutored courses in Asian Art History in Singapore at the Nanyang Technological University, School of Art Design and Media. She writes occasionally for local and regional magazines such asConfabulation and C-Arts, and has published essays in The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art catalogue, Modern Art Asia, the Journal of Maritime Geopolitics and Culture, and others. Her present PhD project compares the ways gender has been articulated in discourses of power through the possession, circulation and creation of visual representations in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Cristin McKnight Sethi
India and South Asia
Cristin McKnight Sethi is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley whose research focuses on South Asian art of the early modern to contemporary periods. Her interests include global histories of collecting and exhibiting South Asian objects, art made during the British Raj, and the politics and art historical predicament of “folk” art practices. Her Master’s thesis (University of Texas at Austin, 2008),“Rajah of Bhurtpore in Durbar”: Photographic Image-Making and Royal Practice in Colonial India, explores the shifting meaning of a photographic print as it moves through space and time. She is currently researching her dissertation on phulkari embroidery from Punjab.
Virginia Moon
Korea
In 2010 Virgina Moon completed a PhD in the department of Art History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, entitled “The Grafting of a Canon: The Politics of Korea’s National Treasures and the Formation of an Art History”. Virginia also holds degrees in East Asian History and Art History from Harvard and Yale respectively. She has taught and presented her research widely, and is currently an adjunct at Mount san Antonio College, Walnut, California. She is also active as a translator, contributing to the development of the Freer and Sackler Galleries scholarly resources on Korean ceramics.
Rajesh K Singh
India
Rajesh Kumar Singh is an independent art historian and art critic based in Baroda, India. He has studied at Patna University and holds a post-graduate degree in art criticism from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. Rajesh was Assistant Archivist (Cultural Archives) and Instructional Designer (Cultural Informatics Laboratory) of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. Subsequently, he was Senior Art Historian in a subsidiary of Zee Telefilms, Mumbai, and a faculty member at Meeruth and Maharaja Sayajirao Universities. Rajesh has research interests in both the ancient and contemporary arts of India. On the subject of modern and contemporary Indian art, Rajesh has authored about three dozen articles in Indian journals, art magazines, catalogues, and newspapers.
Hyejong Yoo
Korea
Hyejong Yoo holds a Ph.D from the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at Cornell University. Her dissertation, "Democracy as the Legitimate 'Form' and 'Content': Reimagining Art into Minjung Misul.", focused on minjung misul ("the people's art"), the most prominent Korean art movement in the 1980s. Her writing and interviews have appeared in Invisible Culture, Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon: The Fourth Auckland Triennial, and Misul gwa saenggak.
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Associate Editor
Kristina Kleutghen
China
Kristina Kleutghen received her Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2010. As an art historian and writer, she specializes in cross-cultural perspectives on late imperial, modern and contemporary Chinese art and visual culture. Kristina is particularly interested in the lives and afterlives of Qing (1644-1911) imperial objects, and is currently at work on several writing and speaking projects related to this theme. For more details, please visit her website, kristinakleutghen.com
email kleutghen@modernartasia.com
Kristina Kleutghen
China
Kristina Kleutghen received her Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2010. As an art historian and writer, she specializes in cross-cultural perspectives on late imperial, modern and contemporary Chinese art and visual culture. Kristina is particularly interested in the lives and afterlives of Qing (1644-1911) imperial objects, and is currently at work on several writing and speaking projects related to this theme. For more details, please visit her website, kristinakleutghen.com
email kleutghen@modernartasia.com