SingartThrough 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…
Phoenix Rising From Twin Towers
If you are just as taken by the salient beauty of Singaporean Donna Ong’s ingenious use of industrial nuts and bolts to create a massive installation of a magical underwater world of corals in her “Landscape…
A Confine Of Layered Views
Closed as a jail in 1991, the Freemantle Prison, in Western Australia, has been gazetted for conservation as a historic building. From 1992, tours round its facilities began. And I went on 1 in 1998. It…
Ants At Art
For those of you who have been movingly taken by Syaiful Aulia Garibaldi’s “Abiogenesis: Terhah Landscape” exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries in May this year, I have great news: conceptual artist, Yukinori Yanagi, is having his…
A Culture Crouched In Skin
My last year’s visit to the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve had the highlight of highlights: I spotted my 1st saltwater crocodile, after living in Singapore for nearly 5 decades. Yes, such a sighting is indeed fairly…
The Pixilation Of Life
When I was a biology undergraduate well over 2 decades ago, I had spent my fair share of time peering into the microscope, studying the basic component of life – the living cell. And it has…
Snapped: Here & The World
If you have been enthralled by Sebastiao Salgado’s technical and artistic excellence in shooting his black and white photographs on nature and tribal communities in the undeveloped world for his current “Genesis” exhibition at the National…
A Global History Through China
Chinese porcelain was so historically esteemed in Europe that in the English language, ‘china’ became a commonly used synonym for the Franco-Italian term ‘porcelain’. Insatiable European demand inspired many in this continent to attempt to recreate…
Japan’s Hypnotic Cosmic Blooms
For those of us who had visited the ArtScience Museum between mid October last year and mid January this year, we have been treated with international renowned Japanese media artist, Naoka Tosa’s “Sound of Ikebana: Four…