What’s your magic bullet?
This year in May, art lovers will be given a real treat. At La SALLE, Singapore, the Magic Bullet exhibition takes place. Being a graduation showcase exhibition of the MA Fine Art students 2013, it promises to feature some fresh, contemporary art… Read More ›
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Shall we biennale?
Author: Durriya Dohadwala. As Singapore prepares for its 4th biennale in October and as we wait and anticipate what this one will bring with its theme of If the World Changed it may be appropriate to revisit why we biennale and what… Read More ›
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Social art practices – lessons to be learnt from Southeast Asia
A New York Times article Outside the Citadel, Social Practice Art is Intended to Nurture speaks to the limited awareness of Southeast Asian art practices, which for centuries have focused on performance in social spaces. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/arts/design/outside-the-citadel-social-practice-art-is-intended-to-nurture.html Social Art Practice practitioners,… Read More ›
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Blah: a national conversation
Blah: A National Conversation is a group exhibition featuring new works by alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts, La SALLE College of the Arts. The expression ‘blah’ is suggestive of blabbering while phonetically, ‘be-lah’ is slang in the Malay language used to… Read More ›
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Bringing together: family and portraits
John Clang, born Ang Choon Leng, has from a young age carried an immense passion for photography. So much so that he enrolled in La SALLE College of the Arts in Singapore at age 17; but after six months he decided to drop… Read More ›
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Appreciating art
Last year, I attended the Singapore Art Museum Appreciating Art Lecture Series and it proved to be one of the most important events in Singapore’s art happenings calendar. If you have an interest in the arts and would like an… Read More ›
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Weighing history through modern and contemporary asian art
Author: Durriya Dohadwala The third edition of the Collector’s Show is now on at the Singapore Art Museum. The exhibition, which is usually timed to open with and complement Art Stage Singapore, showcases 23 works from private collections around the world. … Read More ›
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Does art education matter?
Author: Durriya Dohadwala. The arts define us. Visual arts, dance, theatre and music all play an integral part in creating the identity of a society and promoting and teaching values to the people within it. Not only do concerts, theatre… Read More ›
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Brand managers = contemporary artists?
Edward Munch’s (1985) The Scream was sold by Sotheby’s in New York for a record $120 million in May 2012, Francis Bacon’s 1963, Portrait of Henrietta Moraes’ sold for $21 million in London of that same year. These sales were… Read More ›
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What’s your magic bullet?
April 22, 2013
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Shall we biennale?
March 27, 2013
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Social art practices – lessons to be learnt from Southeast Asia
March 25, 2013
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Blah: a national conversation
March 6, 2013
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Bringing together: family and portraits
February 16, 2013
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Appreciating art
February 5, 2013
