Just realised that this site is still up (yay!). But in case you didn’t know, it’s moved here.
Mural wall at Taman Jurong CC with random bicycle.
Remember that popular graffiti art work that’s turned into a kind of tourist photo op in Penang? Well, you had its Taman Jurong counterpart—at least until the uncle rode away.
It currently features the work of TJ residents following a workshop by visual artist Speak Cryptic, but fellow artist Tay Bee Aye pointed out that the wall near the Taman Jurong Community Club has always been a site for mural painting.
She should know—Tay has lived in the area since 1971. So it’s more than fitting that she’ll be presenting an interactive installation work over the weekend for an open house event launching Our Museum@Taman Jurong. Continue reading ‘Community art museum opens at Taman Jurong’
It’s the National Arts Council’s second new art space after Goodman Arts Centre and after the open call for tenants last year, the list of the lucky ones have been released.
The former Chong Cheng School at 28 Aliwal Street (a stone’s throw away from the Malay Heritage Centre) is set to be a “multi-disciplinary arts centre” with a performing arts bent.
The official opening isn’t so soon but here’s the list.
(UPDATE: MDA’s statement below)
Poet-playwright-director Elangovan’s latest play Stoma has been denied an Arts Entertainment licence by the Media Development Authority.
The Agni Kootthu (Theatre Of Fire) production was scheduled to run at The Substation from Jan 17 to 19.
It’s the third play from the 1997 SEA Write Awardee to have been banned after the English and Malay versions of Talaq in 2000 and Smegma in 2006.
Cake Theatrical Productions' Simon Says
National campaigns—who hasn’t heard or been affected by these? A new group show at the National Library re-examines their most ubiquitous element.
Actually, it’s not so much new as it is expanded. An earlier version of Campaign City: Life In Posters was exhibited at Evil Empire back in 2010.
Enjoyable as that show was, I had some misgivings about how the artists responded to the idea of campaigns—but this version works much better.
A collaboration by the NLB and Salon Projects (with Alan Oei and Cheong Kah Kit spearheading), Campaign City features 50 contributors from different backgrounds (artists, graphic designers, students, poets, theatre peeps) creating their own posters.
Continue reading ‘Artists give S’pore campaign posters a twist’
Still haven’t booked tickets to OH! Open House’s Marina Bay art walkabout? Check out this video by my colleague Sion Touhig. Or maybe read my thoughts here.
The final list for the most recent Sovereign Asian Art Prize is up and three Singapore artists are included: Boo Sze Yang, Debbie Ding and Zhao Renhui.
I’m not quite sure what “year” it falls under—2013 or 2012 or 2011 as the website says. Oh well.
The number of SG artists are a drop from the two previous finalist list. But that shouldn’t matter, right? And in the previous tradition of silly nicknames for artists in contests, I shall dub them Triple Threat. Sounds better than the Three Stooges.
Zhao’s a repeat presence, with one of his polar pics, Expedition #43, while the two others make their debut.
Boo’s Fashion Mall, Las Vegas, USA painting probably comes from his recent series exploring malls and churches (some of which were shown at a solo last year).
Ding’s Ethnographic Fragments From Singapore photo composite (of road and pavement fragments from around Singapore) was from an exhibition back in August. Incidentally, she’ll be making her presence felt during the Art Stage buzz week both at the main fair (at The Substation booth) and at Gillman Barracks.
“Lots of rocks and spots,” she said. We hear ya.
Check out the list here.
Want to have the time of your life? The Dirty Dancing musical is headed to Marina Bay Sands from May 24, 2013, and tickets are on sale now! Titled Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage, the musical is the movie adaptation of the hit movie starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, and even has the original screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein writing the musical.
You know “Nobody puts Baby in a corner”, so if you’re feet have started tapping with this news, it might be time to go grab some tickets. Tickets are priced from SGD$55 and on sale now.
For more, check out the press release below:
Continue reading ‘The Dirty Dancing musical mambos to our shores’
(UPDATE: OTHER YEAR-END PICKS COMPILED BELOW)
Surely this is a first for this RAT: One measly blog post for this month!
Apologies to my three avid readers for not updating as regularly as in the past—but seeing as the Mayans were proven wrong, I’ll make up for it next year.
What a year 2012 has turned out to be, ey? Anniversaries for/by The Esplanade, Kuo Pao Kun and The Necessary Stage. “Sticker Lady”. Janice Koh stepping up as a most impressive Arts NMP. Gillman Barracks. The David Copperfield moments of our Venice Biennale participation and the Singapore Arts Festival. The Transformers moment of MICA into MCCY and MCI. The shocking news of Benson Puah’s cancer diagnosis. The tragic passing of Emma Yong and others…
And then there’s everything else.
Thought I’d share my picks of shows for 2012. Admittedly, for some reason or other, I’ve missed out on or didn’t really follow through with a lot of stuff, many of which have earned raves from fellow followers of the visual and performing arts scene: Patricia Toh’s Homogenous and Pretty Things, Checkpoint Theatre’s Occupation, the Mandarin version of A Language Of Their Own, the KPK exhibition at NMS or the site-specific performance 11 Kuo Pao Kun Devised, The Finger Players Oliver Chong-show Roots, the inspiring Contact dance festival, those blink-and-you’ll-miss-it exhibitions at Gillman Barracks’ cool galleries side, etc.
But hey, I did catch a few others.
DiverseCity, the ongoing exhibition by the Singapore International Foundation, isn’t exactly an exhibition exhibition.
A great part of it really is simply a showcase of the stuff that SIF has supported for the past year by way of travel grants overseas presentation grants. I thought I needed to clarify that because it is at the fourth floor of SAM at 8Q (in contrast to the previous one held at SOTA). Continue reading ‘S’pore Int’l Foundation showcases its DiverseCity’
