Promise of things to come
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WHO ARE the emerging art stars of Penang? It's a tough call looking for artists in their twenties who have managed to show pizzazz, daring and redoubtable skill...
Sculpturing Penang’s public spaces
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Kikuchi Mitsuo standing next to his sculpture, Under a Penang Sky.A squat oval marble sculpture on a circular pedestal sits forlornly at the edge of the...
A focus on female artists
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FOR NG KIM HEOH, 2010 presents new challenges and an uncertain future. After years of teaching and working her way up to the post of senior assistant in a sec...
Even for artists, it’s about location, location, location
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Susanna Helena Hernesniemi’s paintings (opposite page) often reflect a sense of disorientation and ambiguity of place.Strange how artists locate to...
Birdmen of Penang
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Laced woodpecker by Choo Beng Teong, watercolour on paper.The bird population in terms of species and numbers is dwindling in Penang. Choo Beng Teong attr...
Nirmala’s last wish
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Above: A 1986 work from Nirmala’s Damai series on the pity of war, The Pity War Distilled. Ink drawing of a bag lady in Brussels in 1995.With vision...
What now, after Teng (Sr)?
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Chuah Siew Teng – spontaneous and abstract.Datuk Chuah Thean Teng, known as Teng (Senior) was Malaysia’s only artist acknowledged to have star...
New life for old masters?
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Abdullah Ariff , “After the storm”, 1956, 38 x 56cm, watercolour.At the first Henry Butcher (HB) Art Auction Malaysia, the profile of pioneer...
Will art world acronyms prove auspicious?
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Penang, it seems, has caught on to the fetish for acronyms. In September, the 1MCAT "came" to Penang. There was much for art aficionados to PIPE about and SIP u...
The Art Market Is Booming
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A suit of Andy Warhol’s later series of Campbell Soup silk-screens on display at the Singapore-based Collectors Contemporary boothAll of a sudden, M...
Making future artists better
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THROW A STONE and you would hit a few Datuks. The joke may be trite, but for artists, “Datukships” are exceptions to the rule. Still, Penang is one...
Being a part of what you paint
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“Kapitan Keling Mosque, Penang” (watercolour on paper).FOR ALL HIS FAME and extraordinary skills, Tan Choon Ghee never got to be fabulously ri...