A Triumphant Come Back: Cheah Yew Saik
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THINGS happen for a reason – a popular adage which has been variously attributed to luminaries from Albert Schweitzer to Marilyn Monroe.For art-educatio...
Artists We Lost in 2019
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WORKS OF ART are invested with a certain immortality long after the creator dies. These are tangible and enduring, legacies imbued with the visions, manifestati...
More and More New Art Spaces and Events for Penang
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HAS PENANG WHAT it takes to be a satellite arts hub in Malaysia, once new purpose-built infrastructures are in place?An informal talk Missing Links: Piecing T...
Covid-19 Exclusives: The Virus Blights the Art World
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VISUAL ART activities have been badly impacted by the Covid-19 Virus global pandemic. Museums, festivals, art fairs, biennials are closed, often with immediate...
Covid-19 Exclusives: The Art World in Quarantine
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WHAT DO ARTISTS and galleries/dealers do during lockdowns? Suffering a severe money crunch, they know sanguinely that it will be a new art market and landscape...
Do Suicides Plague Artists More than Others?
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A dark harbinger? One of the sordid Black on Gray Series painted by Mark Rothko before his suicide.ARE VISUAL ARTISTS by the nature and process of their c...
Letting Sound Play on Sight, and Vice Versa
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TO PARAPHRASE SHAKESPEARE, “If music is the food of love, paint on.”Visual artists in Malaysia are faced with a widening spectrum of creative expr...
Remembering Yong Mun Sen (Born Kuching, Sarawak, January 10, 1896. Died Penang, September 29,1962)
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THE LEGEND OF Yong Mun Sen is one of the most gripping of an art of a people and time in the formative years of Malaya and after.Painting pioneer (oil, waterc...