Tag: Modern Art
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Colours of Impressionism | Curating Colour?
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in ReviewThe news of National Gallery Singapore’s latest collaboration with Musée d’Orsay was a big deal for me, especially owing to the fact – like my sister likes to joke to me about – that this exhibition basically sums up my degree. Or at least, my favourite style and period in art history, which is 19th century…
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Artist and Empire | Looking at Colonialism
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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…
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March Art Events | Hong Kong & Singapore
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“I think there should be no end to experimentation.” – Zaha Hadid Spring is here! And along with that is a range of art events in Hong Kong for its Art Month in March. This year, the range of art fairs is happening in the later part of the month starting this week, and there’s…
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M. C. Escher | Journey to Infinity
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in ReviewOne of the exhibitions I would highly recommend to see in Singapore right now would be Journey to Infinity: Escher’s World of Wonder at ArtScience Museum. I wasn’t familiar with Escher before, beyond his Drawing Hands that I’ve seen everywhere but never attributed to an artist. This exhibition was bigger than I expected it to be and…
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Wu Guanzhong: Beauty Beyond Form
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in ReviewNational Gallery Singapore opened late November last year, and I was of course eager to check it out during my summer in Singapore! It’s at the site where the former Supreme Court building and City Hall used to be, which have now been restored and combined to form Singapore’s newest art museum. The architecture is gorgeous…