SingartMore Than American Dreams
During my teens Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semi-biographical “Little House on the Prairie” series of books captured my vivid imagination. Her life growing up with her settler family on the Great Plains in the United States of…
Kaleidoscopic Landscapes | Surrealistic Paintings by Knakorn Kachacheewa
A gentleman in a charcoal grey suit stands against the sea and the cloudy sky, partly veiled by the rotund green apple. Undoubtedly, we are talking about “The Son of Man” (1964) by René Magritte, one…
Fresh Takes | Crisp Perspectives at Chan Hampe Galleries
One would recollect the prodigious development in Singapore’s art scene back in the 1950s by catching a glimpse of fishing sampans with a Western composition — the Nanyang style. Now, how do we react to plastic…
Art Crossing Dusk
Ivory black, or ‘pigment black 9’ and ‘bone char’, is an artist’s dye that was once made by grinding charred ivory in oil. Today, actual ivory is no longer used, given the expense and the fact…
Singapore Contemporary Artists: The Cut Above
If Singaporean Ho Tzu Nyen’s winning the Grand Prize Award for Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2014, Singapore’s Lee Wen’s nomination for the inaugural Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art (2015) and…
Through Youthful Eyes
I remember the mid 1980s: the world was having a global recession and I was fresh out of university. But that did not dampen my hopes of landing my first job. Confident of my skills, personality…
Art Week: Awards Winners
The dust from this year’s just ended blockbuster scaled Art Week has settled alongside the announcements of the winners of 3 Singapore-based art awards: Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art Indonesian contemporary artist FX…
Captured: Singapore Before The 1970s
If you have ever wondered about what was gripping the hearts and minds of Singaporean art makers after the Second World War, the current exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore, “A Changed World: Singapore Art…
More Than Simply a Taste of Thai
For conceptual artist Arin Rungjang food remains pivotal in his exhibitions. In this case, he takes us on a historical and geographical journey, in epic proportions, of one dish in particular – an egg yolk-based Thai…