Artists We Lost in 2019
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Works of art are invested with a certain immortality long after the creator dies. In their honour, what follows are requiems for artists we lost in 2019.
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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Often called the "Father of Malaysian Painting", Yong Mun Sen was a fourth-generation Malayan who grew up in Kuching but ended his days in Penang. Much has been written and said about him but strangely, none from the true heir in spirit and substance, his son Cheng Wah (born 1943).