Hoy Cheong the Art-ivist
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Playing For A Dying Mother, based on a painting by Puvis de Chavannes, for the Lyons Biennial in 2008.HE MAY NOT HAVE done a painting in 20 years, but his...
Trying to unmask Khoo Sui Hoe
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He’s the painting himself. He’s all over the canvases, one way or the other, there in personifications or in his worldview projections which co...
Malihom–Arty Resort And Affluent Refuge
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Adrian Chan.COME JULY, the bountiful harvest of durians, mangosteens, rambutans and langsats is an epicurean delight for residents of the Malihom eco-reso...
Toya: Stretching Batik to Its Limits
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A CAUCASIAN who claimed to be an expert asked Toya where the batik painting exhibition was, blithely unaware that he was looking at batik paintings! That was at...
UTARA –Still Zealous After All These Years
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IT HAS NO MANIFESTO, no annual subscriptions (initially RM400 fee with 15% from the proceeds of sales of works going to the group), no fixed meeting place or fi...
Living Life As Art
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SO OBVIOUS, yet so odd. Syed Ahmad Jamal: ARTIST – that was the title of his last major exhibition, held from October 2009 until January 2010.Maybe it c...
Eric Quah: A Beautiful Life
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FINALLY, the pieces are coming together in Eric Quah’s life. Images of people, places and events collaged through a flourish of brushstrokes or an erasu...
Promise of a Renaissance
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Yes, much has been happening, and is still happening since July 7, 2008, when Penang was christened a Unesco Heritage City. Feel-good vibes not felt since the C...
Bringing Brilliance To Heritage Buildings
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BE IT FOR his paintings of heritage buildings in Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Malacca or of the diaolou/tulou of China, Chong Hon Fatt has gained legions of adm...
Chew Teng Beng - A Pioneering Artist and Teacher
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When Dr Chew Teng Beng, a pioneering Malaysian abstract artist, was offered a job at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), then Universiti Penang, in 1969, he did no...
Penang – A Home for Malay Artists
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Abdul Rashid Razak with a painting on Mahsuri.Penang has attracted excellent academic, intellectual and/or practising artists by default because of educat...
Of Women Artists and Their Art
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In this era of the Super Woman, the purportedly weaker sex has to juggle her duties as wife, mother, daughter-in-law, daughter, sister, career woman or home/ fa...