Singapore had waited in great anticipation for the Church of Saint Alphonsus to resume mass at its Thomson Road site, following 3 years of closure to facilitate building a much bigger and grander church. Since conducting…
In today’s world of political correctness, how would an Asian artist translate his own historical lineage into a piece of multi-cultural multi-disciplinary art form worthy of commanding the world’s attention? For Singaporean Jailani Zai Kuning, his…
When motion picture cameras were invented in the 1890s, the resulting under a minute’s realistic moving photographs of an authentic or staged everyday life, public or sporting event, slapstick and travelogue of sights of far flung…
With the “Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay” exhibition just opened at the National Gallery Singapore destined for Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide next from 29 March 2018, and the world renowned…
Malaysian born Shahrul Jamili Miskon’s ongoing “METALANGUAGE” exhibition at Chan + Hori Contemporary draws inspiration from the research he had done that had led to his graduation at this country’s International Institute of Islamic Thought and…
A Brit I knew has worked all his life for the Salvation Army, which has a policy of moving their senior staff to a different location in the United Kingdom every 3 years to inject new…
My memories of New Zealand in the 1980s are succinctly personified by Ben Young’s sculptures of glass and concrete: of the homage Kiwis give the seas surrounding the narrow strips of North and South islands they…
Yesterday Elon Musk posted on Instagram the first official photo of his SpaceX spacesuit(1). Meant as pressure suits for NASA astronauts riding inside his company’s Dragon Capsule to and from the International Space Station and capable…
Perspectives, perceptions and potential permutations: these have been some of the driving motivations for many visual artists since the dawn of time. And the current special exhibitions at STPI and the National Gallery Singapore hammer this…
Sound expert Julian Treasure advocates ‘designing for our ears’ while contemplating the quality of architectural space for communication and exchange. And there are now actual ingenious examples where sound is integral to contemporary building design: Mark…
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