Malaysian artists join one of Singapore’s many shows
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Becoming the region’s art hub takes decades of conscious effort, as was obvious at the fifth edition of Art Stage Singapore.
Seeing art in passing time and peopled space
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Lee: Engaging pioneering communities.Art today can involve the most ordinary of people doing the most ordinary of things, fulfilling the Beuysian dictum o...
So much of Ismail Hashim to unpack or repack
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Some visitors were a wee bit befuddled, flummoxed and bewildered.They had trooped to photographer extraordinaire Ismail Hashim’s Unpack-Repack exhibitio...
Art Thefts are Big Business
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The theft of well-known Indonesian artist Affandi’s Self-Portrait With Pipe (1973), which was sold at the Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction for 5 billion rupiah in May 2014, was solved with the arrest of two suspects in May this year.
A Show of Images Small, Succinct and Sensational
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Diversity is perhaps best noticed and accepted when artistic and cultural expressions are clearly framed and starkly expressed. By encouraging small and mobile paintings, inspiration gets democratised.
Taking water and colours to new heights
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Watercolours are deemed low in the art hierarchy. But it is in that genre that Chang Fee Ming is a game-changer, known for constantly pushing the parameters of...
Paris – Source of inspiration for local artists
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Until Lai Foong Moi paved the yellow-brick road to the art world of Paris in 1953, few in Malaya/Singapore thought it possible for them to traverse such a path.
Calmness Caught in Epic Colours
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Syed Thajudeen grew up on both sides of the Bay of Bengal. The stories, the sights and the sounds of the region resonate starkly in his paintings.
Will Malaysia’s Bullish Art Market be Bearing Downwards?
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Will the Malaysian art (auction) market slouch in 2016? New artists’ records may have been set in 2015, but the market did end the year with a comparative...
Loving Paris in the Winter
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Winter is hardly the season of discontent as oft perceived – barren and calcified of major art-tivities because of the “wrathful nipping cold”...
A Massive Show that is Managing
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The Sixth Art Stage Singapore (AS6) ended on January 24, 2016 (vernissage January 20) with mixed signals: the hoopla of Singapore’s Golden Jubilee celebra...
Enough to Please Most Eyes
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It is the largest assembly of museum-quality fare on South-East Asian art, with a small selection of 8,000 works that has been borrowed from institutions and pr...