Tang Hon Yin – In Search of Magical Margins
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Still Life (30 x 21cm. Gouache on paper, 1959).THE Tang Hon Yin Retrospective is a fitting culmination of the artist’s Space Odyssey of half a centu...
Challenging Times Ahead for Art Fairs in Asia
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A newspaper clipping on the cancellation of Art Stage Singapore, in the Singapore Straits Times.The abrupt cancellation of Art Stage (AS) Singapore a week...
Securing Democracy, One Art Event at a Time
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Jumble of the digital-print posters.Posters strung at the MAP Publika boulevard.Poster lauding Mexican feminist artist Frida Kahlo...
Paintings Timelessly Watered and Coloured
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(Top) First layer. Demonstration painting at the Taman Aman lake. (Bottom) Hey Presto! The finished painting.“He (Ong Kim Seng) is versatile in hi...
Can the YCA Awards Keep Up with the Times?
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Afiq Faris (b. 1991, Selangor) Saka-Saka.Joy Ng Mei Lok (b. 1996, KL) SeedSo, the next young superstar in the Malaysian art firmament has been named...
Ipoh – A Place to Visit for the Art Enthusiast
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Lau Chee Wah, ruddy-looking for 82, still takes orders for his traditional chick blinds.THE double-storey shoplots along Lorong Bijeh Timah (Postcode: 300...
Art Expo Malaysia Marches On While Others Stumble
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It’s a feat that the International Art Expo Malaysia (AEM) is now in its 13th year, though it is increasingly tough to keep up with the fast-changing game...
A Row of Fairs Clearing the Air in the Art World
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ALL’S FAIR WITH art fairs as a modicum of normalcy returns to the art scene after two years of Covid-19 pandemic cryonics on public life.Dusting the cobwebs fro...
A Wild Amalgam at Art Biennial for the Young
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FINALLY, painting is dead, at least in the hugely prestigious Bakat Muda Sezaman (BMS, Young Contemporary Artists) 2021/2022 competition for young artists, some...
Malaysian Artists Gaining World Fame…and Maybe Fortune
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AS INTERNATIONAL BORDERS begin opening up, Malaysian artists are receiving gilt-edged invitations to major international showcases such as the Venice Biennale (...
NFTs: A Flash in the Pan or a Herald of the Future?
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WHEN BEEPLE’S NFT, Everydays: The First 5,000 Days (2021), sold for US$69.3mil at Christie’s March 2021 auction, it triggered a seismic revolution in the art wo...
As Covid Retreats, Malaysian Art Gets Ready to Flourish
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THE BAKAT MUDA Sezaman ’21 (Young Contemporary Artists, BMS), with its new format of satellite zoning and Art On Site (Seni Di Lokasi) nucleus, should be a game...