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.
SO OBVIOUS, yet so odd. Syed Ahmad Jamal: ARTIST – that was the title of his last major exhibition, held from October 2009 until January 2010.Maybe it c...
FINALLY, the pieces are coming together in Eric Quah’s life. Images of people, places and events collaged through a flourish of brushstrokes or an erasu...
Yes, much has been happening, and is still happening since July 7, 2008, when Penang was christened a Unesco Heritage City. Feel-good vibes not felt since the C...
BE IT FOR his paintings of heritage buildings in Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Malacca or of the diaolou/tulou of China, Chong Hon Fatt has gained legions of adm...
When Dr Chew Teng Beng, a pioneering Malaysian abstract artist, was offered a job at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), then Universiti Penang, in 1969, he did no...
Abdul Rashid Razak with a painting on Mahsuri.Penang has attracted excellent academic, intellectual and/or practising artists by default because of educat...
In this era of the Super Woman, the purportedly weaker sex has to juggle her duties as wife, mother, daughter-in-law, daughter, sister, career woman or home/ fa...
Lee WuShu Art (Malaysia).With only RM400,000 from the state and a tight six-week deadline, the first George Town Festival (GTF) was inaugurated in 2010...
The work titled “Penang I” was done during the 81-year-old artist’s one-month stay at Rebecca Owens’ China Tiger apartments at China Str...
Ch'ng Kiah Kiean. No one pulls rank as everyone has the Koo Soo Kwong Choon Tong, Muntri Street (Chinese ink and watercolour on paper).A quirky trend of o...
For four weeks stretching between June and July, the streets of Penang became a living outdoor museum bursting with dance, drama, arts and music.Ostensibly...