SingartTai Chi-ing In The Living World
Singaporeans who enjoy spotting public art installed across the nation will readily tell us that their little red dot under the sun has in its possession 3 of Ju Ming’s highly prized and eminently collectable massive…
The Ever Evolving Ukiyo-e
Having given, in a nutshell, what STPI’s coming summer show “Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints” entails in my SingArt post, “Japan In Creative Focus”, lets move onto the historical development of ukiyo-e to…
Japan In Creative Focus
If Aiko Tezuka’s current “Certainty/Entropy” exhibition at 3rd Floor – Hermes and Ikkan Art Gallery’s display of TeamLab’s “Universe of Water Particles” in April have wetted your appetite for all things Japanese, it will be well satiated…
Cambodia: Deeply Rooted In Rattan
I fondly remember the rattan armchairs my grandmother used to grace her living room with when I was a little girl. It was indeed the ideal furniture for the tropics as the gentle breeze freely flowed…
Way Beyond An Artistic Spin
While the producers of the 2010 British-American science fiction heist thriller “Inception” may want their film to be remembered for the intricacies of Leonardo DiCarprio’s character’s commitment to corporate espionage through the infiltration of his targets’…
A Quenching Japanese Psyche
TeamLab made an indelible impression on visitors to the 2013 Singapore Biennale with their interactive “Peace Can Be Realized Even Without Order” installation, which was inspired by the Awa Dance festival; one that is very entrenched…
The Chance to Own
The wonderful thing about being a volunteer docent with Friends of the Museums at the various public art galleries in Singapore is the great insight we get about the myriad of established artists and their works…
“Genesis”: Pursuing Eden
Sebastiao Salgado’s “Genesis” results from an 8-year expedition, in epic proportions, of rediscovering, through painstaking photo realism, the commanding mountains, the sweeping deserts, the deepest oceans, the still abundant fauna and tribalistic peoples who have to…
Biological Science In Definitive Art
With my initial training in the biological sciences, I have the good fortune of being able to look at a tree and see, in my mind’s eye, the resounding symphony within as every living cell nettle…
Through The Wormhole of Time
The British Broadcasting Corporation has a highly popular science-fiction television programme, “Doctor Who”, that depicts a humanoid alien (a Time Lord) called the Doctor who explores the universe, from the past to the future, in his…
