Tag: Contemporary Art
-
teamLab | National Gallery Singapore edition
—
in ReviewWith the opening of the incredibly popular Mori Building Digital Art Museum teamLab Borderless in Tokyo last month, the world’s first digital art museum and teamLab’s very own museum dedicated to all of their digital installations, I thought it would be fitting to share some of teamLab’s works that I have been seeing in Singapore!…
-
Prospect and Refuge | In Architecture, Art and in Life
—
I first read about this term ‘Prospect and Refuge’ a few years back, and I’d always planned to put it up as a post title but haven’t gotten the right post to go along with it. Things have moved pretty quickly, I feel, since moving back to Singapore from Hong Kong last June, and then…
-
Creativity in Pulses 新‧创艺 | Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
—
in ReviewI was introduced to the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre that recently opened in May this year just last week. Its opening exhibition Creativity in Pulses 新‧创艺, running till 30th September 2017, talks about what it means to identify as a Singaporean Chinese through the perspectives of a group of Singaporean artists in their twenties and thirties. I…
-
Joseon Korea | Royalty and High Culture
—
in ReviewManaged to come back to Singapore in time to see Asian Civilisations Museum’s special exhibition Joseon Korea: Court Treasures and City Life! I think anyone interested in anything Korea probably got their start from Korean pop culture: either Kpop or Kdramas. For me, it was kdramas that did me in. ;) Many Korean historical dramas…
-
Artist and Empire | Looking at Colonialism
—
in ReviewNational Gallery Singapore’s latest retrospective of Yayoi Kusama’s works is super popular now, but I’m going to take the time to catch up with their previous special exhibition! The first exhibition that I saw this year was National Gallery Singapore’s second special exhibition ‘Artist and Empire: (En)countering Colonial Legacies’ in collaboration with Tate Britain. The…