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…
It heartens me to see that Colombian artist, Fernando Botero, and I share a passionate love in common – people of generous proportions. While I encapsulate this fondness by marrying a kind and yet intelligent man…
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…
When a visiting artist is faced with Singapore’s obsession as a foodie’s paradise for the first time, what does she do? In the case of Berlin-based Korean art maker, Haegue Yang, she begins to wonder big…
Set officially to open in 2015, Singapore Pinacotheque de Paris is a private fine art museum that features private art collections. Ear-marked to permanently house its artistic treasures in the Fort Canning Centre in Fort Canning…
If the world changed, what would it be like? – Especially in the world we live in and want to live in? This provocative question, in particular relation to the ebb and flow of time in…
Stanley Wong, the ‘Father of Red-White-Blue’ in Hong Kong, has set up his “Show Flat 04” in the Third Floor – Hermes in Liat Towers to bring to the international community the enduring message of family…
The Swiss-based Qui Jie has been part of a saddened generation of mainland Chinese that were continually subjected to the political indoctrination rife during tremulous years collectively called the Cultural Revolution. As an artistically talented child,…
When I was an impressionable child, I was very much enthralled by 2 much-loved children’s stories: Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass” and the Grimm brothers’ “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs”. In both, mirrors play…
Yogyakarta-born and based Eko Nugroho is renowned for his trade mark investigations into social constructs and human behaviour under conditions of concealed identity: the faces of people he candidly depicts in his artwork are always completely…
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