Congratulations to Dr. Karin G. Oen — Newly Appointed Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

Congratulations to Dr. Karin G. Oen

Newly Appointed Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

Art of the Ancestors wishes to extend heartfelt congratulations and best wishes for future triumphs to curator par excellence, Dr. Karin Oen, on her recently announced appointment as Deputy Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore. Karin has enjoyed a stellar career in Asian art curation both in Dallas at the Crow Museum and in San Francisco at the Asian Art Museum. Participation in the vibrant art scene of contemporary Singapore will surely provide Karin with new and exciting opportunities to express her myriad talents. Her many fans in Dallas and beyond wish her a bon voyage and Buona Fortuna!

In 2013 Karin, at the Crow Museum in Dallas, in conjunction with local supporters of Indonesian art, and with the gracious enthusiasm of Trammel Crow Jr., and the museum's Director, Amy Hofland, did an exemplary job of curation on the "Terang Bulan: Art from Java and Bali" exhibition. Ruth Barnes, the eminent curator of the Indo-Pacific collection at the Yale University Art Gallery once opined to me that one has to understand the extraordinary breadth and beauty from within the corpus of Balinese art in order to more fully appreciate the archipelago's tribal traditions. Superlative antique Balinese material is closely linked to many different time horizons and traditions in Indonesian art.

Art of the Ancestors invites our readers to revisit with us Dr. Oen's Terang Bulan exhibition that celebrated Bali, one of Indonesia's most historically important, but under-appreciated fields of art while combining it with superb examples of Javanese three-dimensional material and fine colonial-era batiks.