Art & Culture
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
JUST from hearing it, it's like any professional orchestra. But the assembly of white-veiled Egyptian women in matching black gowns has a startling difference. Every woman in the orchestra is blind.The women in Cairo's Egyptian Blind Girls Chamber...
Monday, 21 May 2012
IN "A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan: including an account of Magindano, Sooloo and other Islands and Illustrated with Thirty Copperplates belonging to The Honourable East India Company during the Years 1774, 1775 and...
Saturday, 19 May 2012
A BOOM in private museums funded by wealthy collectors is transforming the artistic landscape in Asia, and filling the cultural vacuum left by penny-pinching governments, experts say.Organisers of the Hong Kong International Art Fair (Art HK), which...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
BATIK with one of the subtle, russet motifs of Yogyakarta was flapping lazily on a clothesline, seen through the open window of the unassuming warung to the southeast of the city.Warung Sido Semi, built in 1957, conjures up a different era a...
Saturday, 12 May 2012
IN March this year five Bruneian students from the Sayyidina Hasan Secondary School had the unique opportunity to participate in a humanitarian mission to Cambodia.The mission was a life-changing experience for five students who were part of a 45-...
MORE than a hundred mop-topped musicians have flocked to a London theatre in the hope of being cast as Paul, John, George or Ringo in a new Beatles-inspired musical.A spokesman for the producers of "Let It Be", due to hit London's West End...
Thursday, 10 May 2012
IN BRUNEI, younger generation soon-to-be brides and grooms are not excluded from past values and practices due to the presence of rich customs and tradition still alive within Bruneian society. Some young couples prefer to have a "short and...
A SUNSET-COLOURED painting by Mark Rothko became the world's most expensive contemporary art work Tuesday when it fetched US$86.9 million in a stunningly lucrative auction at Christie's in New York."Orange, Red, Yellow" was as hot on the...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
TRAVELLERS heading to Singapore shouldn't just be limited to hotels around Orchard Road when there are some outside of the commercial district that offer comfort and standard that is equivalent, or maybe better, than its Orchard competitors.Three...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
THERE are many descriptions of Brunei in the past. Before the 15th century, historians would find many of them in the Chinese and Arabic records. After the 15th century, with the arrival of the Europeans in the region, the European also wrote...
Saturday, 5 May 2012
AFTER being forced to drop out of school last year because his family needed more income, Gio Vakaloloma turned to the only job available selling coconuts on the streets of Suva.Early every morning, the slightly built 13-year-old shimmies up the...
TAIPEI'S Palace Museum (pic) will expand its exhibition area to accommodate growing numbers of visitors, according to Taiwanese authorities in charge of economic construction.The expanded exhibition hall, together with a cultural creativity center,...
Thursday, 3 May 2012
THE first civilisation that practiced the art of dwarfing plants was the Chinese. They called it "ponsai".In the beginning, according to Chinese history, there was this plant artist called a magician for having created miniature rocky...
THE spring art sales got off to a solid start at Christie's on Tuesday, with works by Cezanne and Matisse each selling for US$19 million as the auction house moved US$117 million worth of Impressionist and modern art.The sales continue on Wednesday...
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
THE Beijing municipal government will subsidise large and medium-sized theatres to encourage them to offer cheaper tickets to audience, Xinhua news agency reported. Starting from Monday, 15 theatres with 500 to 3,000 seat capacity will receive...
ON STREET corners, under garbage dumps, at construction sites pre-Inca archeological sites abound in Lima, where the ruins of hundreds of sacred places are at the mercy of urban growth and public indifference.In the middle of the Miraflores...
EIGHTEEN cliff paintings dating back over 4,000 years have been discovered by archaeologists in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, an official said Sunday. The prehistoric portraits were unearthed in the Yinshan Mountains in Urad...
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
THE world of incense is full of evocative power that can conjure up striking primordial imagery. The golden resin known as frankincense comes from a tree that grows in some of the most forbidding landscapes, and ambergris from the remains of squid...
THE Riau Islands province is keen to learn how to develop its tourism sector from Malaysia. The islands' Tourism Division head Rahman Osman said they would increase cooperation with Malaysia in order to realise their aim. "The same sun...
Monday, 30 April 2012
THE Information Department recently launched a new book entitled "Menjejaki Sejarah Hubungan Brunei-China" which loosely translated means "Tracing the History of Brunei-China Relationship".The book traced the relationship that...
