THE ART OF MAVERICK POETRY

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About the Author Patrick D. Flores is a Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines. He is also Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila and Adjunct Curator at the National Art Gallery, Singapore. He was one of the curators of “Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Art” in 2000 and of the Gwangju Biennale (Position Papers) in 2008. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and an Asian Public Intellectuals Fellow in 2004. His publications include Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art (1999); Remarkable Collection: Art, History, and the National Museum (2006); and Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (2008). He was a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council (2010) and a member of the Advisory Board of the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 (2011) organized by the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and member of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council (2011). He co-edited the Southeast Asian issue with Joan Kee for Third Text (2011). Recently, he was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. BETWEEN COUNTRIES AND DREAMS