24 February 2011, Singapore – Singapore Art Museum, together with prominent film critic Philip Cheah, veteran arts administrator Teo Swee Leng have curated and organised the first-ever Southeast Asia focused Film Festival that will run from 18 March to 7 May 2011 at the Moving Image Gallery, SAM at 8Q. Featuring […]
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Marina Bay Sands Opens World’s First ArtScience Museum
February 2011, Singapore – The world’s first ArtScience Museum opens its doors to the public at 1.18pm on 17 February 2011. With 21 gallery spaces taking up 50,000 square feet, the ArtScience Museum will be housed in the iconic lotus-inspired design and is set to become the heart of […]
Show Me the Love and have a Crazy Christmas – Commemorating World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day is commemorated every year on 1 December to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. People all over the world come together to show solidarity for people living with HIV, to raise awareness and improve education towards HIV/AIDS and to encourage people to adopt positive attitudes towards people living with […]
Catch a little Singapore in Paris
Singapour Festivarts is a joint collaboration between the Musée du Quai Branly and the National Arts Council Singapore (NAC), Media Development Authority Singapore (MDA) and other Singaporean agencies and companies to present the contemporary arts and cultural scenes of Singapore in Paris. Among the events this weekend and in November […]
Shadow Sculpture Reflects Positive Thinking
Last week, I was at The Cathay together with Kloudia to check out a rather interesting installation. As part of Singapore’s Health Promotion Board’s Positive Art Series to remind people to stay positive, this 3 by 5.5 metres installation called ‘Sunny’ will be displayed at The Cathay at Handy Road […]
Alive Gallery – An Interactive appreciation of Art
Recently, I made a trip all the way to Downtown East at Pasir Ris to check out Alive Gallery. I was curious to find out about an interactive approach to art appreciation and I enjoyed myself. One word of advice though, it can get quite text heavy in the exhibition […]
The 3rd Night Festival: New World 2010 by the National Museum of Singapore
16 June 2010, Singapore – The 3rd edition of the Night Festival presented by National Museum of Singapore was well visited by mostly local youths on 16th and 17th July 2010. Clashing with 3 other key activities that weekend, there was also the Singapore Garden Festival and the Singapore Food […]