A Reaction to "A Letter to My Academic Community"

Former Diversity Officer and member of LUCAS Isabel Hoving shares her thoughts on Bareez Majid's blogpost, continuing the Black Lives Matter dialogue within our institute.

Visibility and Vulnerability in the Physical Space of the LGBTI+ Archive

Who's Allowed to Dance in the Museum?

It’s a difficult time for museums, now closed to visitors. Fortunately, we can still access some of our favourite museums from home, not only through newly created museum vlogs and virtual tours, but also through music videos shot in museums.

Drawn to deviance: the deformed body exhibited

How and why is a body we see as ‘deformed’ able to arouse strong affective and aesthetic responses? Andries Hiskes explores how, where, and when a body is presented to us matters in how we experience it through a discussion of the film The Elephant Man.

Finding the Perfect Fit: Adult Toys for Trans Men

Looi visited a launch of adult toys for trans men and takes this opportunity to talk about the importance of self-representation for sexual communities.

Kuroda Raiji: “We collect Asian art in which we detect contemporaneity”

The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum dedicates its activity to modern and contemporary art from Asia and it is the only museum of the world of its kind. In November 2017, the museum witnessed an exceptional conflation of Southeast Asian art in its program.

Women in STEM in Kuwait City

The ‘Women in STEM’ conference in Kuwait last October showed how science can empower women.

Interview Loredana Paracciani: "Southeast Asian artists have a genuine interest in their culture"

A conversation with London-based independent curator Loredana Paracciani on her work with contemporary art from Southeast Asia

Helena Spanjaard: “Hey, this is funny, they make modern art here”

In this post Dutch art historian Helena Spanjaard recounts her journey to become the first Dutch art historian on Indonesian modern art in the Netherlands, and the unfolding of the discipline of modern Indonesian art history in her country.