Enough to Please Most Eyes

By Ooi Kok Chuen

April 2016 PENANG PALETTE
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U Ba Nyan's Yangon Harbour (oil on canvas, c. 1930s).
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National Gallery Singapore echoes the region’s evolving aesthetics.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 private collectors. When it opened on November 24, 2015, National Gallery Singapore (NGS) was the icing on the cake for Singapore’s Golden Jubilee celebrations and sealed its ambitions to be a significant arts-cultural hub in the region.Refurbished for S$532mil (RM1.63bil), it exemplifies the visionary and systematic planning...

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Ooi Kok Chuen

is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.

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