George Town's "Mr Festival"
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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...
Strawalde Painting on Auction for PHT
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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...
Sketch Where You Stand
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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...
Hong Kong Vibrant Art World
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Damien Hirst's skull painting.Zhang Xiao-gang, noted for his grey Chinese cadre pictures. Zhang is China's most expensive living artist....
The George Town Festival 2012 – An Overwhelming Month
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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...
Sex, Truths and Photographs
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He is fastidious to a fault. Notorious for his creative conceit and an excruciatingly slow burning developing process (“I am a process photographer,&rdquo...
Art Auctions are the New Stock Market
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This is a banner year for art auctions in Malaysia, with a grand total of four held so far. For a country comparatively short on art history and with a long way...
More Art Acquisitions for Penang
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Zulkifli Yusoff, "Rest a while" Steel sculpture Donated by Datuk Dr Tan Chee Khuan.The figure stands at an impressive 578. This is the number of art piece...
In Search of Old Masterpieces
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M.F. Husain’s Bird Cage. M.F. Husain visited UM twice, first in 1959 and then again in 1964.Latiff Mohidin’s Seascape, oil on canvas, 132cm...
In Awed Appreciation of PAGO-PAGO
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Dark Pago-Pago, oil on canvas, 1967.It is moot if so many Pago-Pago works of Malaysia’s great artist Latiff Mohidin can ever be assembled again unde...
Artists with Pioneering Status
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In 1992, a practising psychiatrist who had been collecting art for only five years produced, out of the blue, a fairly scholarly tome on the genesis of Modern M...
Seeking Inspiration in Balik Pulau
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Idyllic Balik Pulau, the last natural sanctuary on Penang Island, is evolving into a resort for artists.Several artists have started moving there to be far, f...