The Art Market Is Booming
By Ooi Kok Chuen
December 2010 PENANG PALETTE
There have been many signs that the art scene in Malaysia is changing. This was obvious at the recent International Art Expo Malaysia (AEM) held in Kuala Lumpur. Moreover, just a couple of months earlier at the Henry Butcher Art Auction (HB), an all-time record auction price was paid for a Malaysian painting, one by Datuk Ibrahim Hussein. By Ooi Kok ChuenA suit of Andy Warhol’s later series of Campbell Soup silk-screens on display at the Singapore-based Collectors Contemporary boothAll...
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.
