Art & Culture
Thursday, 20 June 2013
RUSSIAN painter Wassily Kandinsky's expressionist masterpiece "Studie zu Improvisation 3, 1909" (pic) was the highlight and leading indicator for a flat Christie's London Impressionist and modern art sale on Tuesday. The painting fell...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
USTAZ Hj Wahab Sallehuddin Ling smiled at the 300-odd audience, mostly members of the Chinese community in Brunei who gathered for the muhibbah meeting organised by the Islamic Da'wah Centre on June 8."Yes, it is true. Islam allows a man to...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
THE excited chatter ceases only for a moment when I approach, resuming when the seven girls and two teachers introduce themselves. Their mood is upbeat, especially as rain had earlier threatened to cancel the afternoon programme.The students are...
Monday, 10 June 2013
MOST visitors do not know that Carey Island, located off the west coast of Peninsula Malaysia in the Kuala Langat district of Selangor state, is actually an island as it is separated from the mainland only by the meandering Langat River.One of the...
A CLEAR metallic sound rings out and by the time our heads turn to its source, other musical notes join in to build up a steady, cautious rhythm. It displaces the earlier prevailing night noise in the jungle as the man-made music silences crickets...
AS pets go, they are low maintenance. No muss, no fuss, nice and quiet, and even a bit furry. So, how about snuggling up with a giant, non-biting tarantula?A farm in Chile exports the palm-sized critters to Asia, Europe and the United States for...
Saturday, 8 June 2013
VISITORS to the Eiffel Tower began getting a little extra for the price of their entry ticket on Thursday with the unveiling of a new landmark on Paris's artistic landscape.Or skyscape, rather, as the new art work has been installed on a roof at...
AUSTRALIA has been challenged to match France's promotion of Aboriginal art after the inauguration of a landmark work in Paris.Gija artist Lena Nyadbi's Dayiwul Lirlmim (Barramundi Scales) will be seen by millions of visitors to the French...
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
AMONG all the things on earth, the 49-year-old artist Wang Baoan loves water most."Water is so weak that it has to wind its way as it flows down, but sometimes it is so strong that no mountain or rock can stop it heading to the sea," said...
A BEIJING auction house announced Sunday that it would scrap the auction of letters by a late Chinese writer and his widow upon protest of privacy infringement.An online statement by Poly International Auction Co Ltd. said three letters written by...
IT WAS love at first sight for a couple who share the same passion for painting and have jointly exhibited their works.Two years ago Neneh Ada Yang knew nothing about China, but today her talent for Chinese art impresses even masters in the field....
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
WORKS of artists from Indochina Fine Arts College's first generation will be brought to Vietnam by collector Nguyen Minh. Minh bought three artworks by Vu Cao Dam and Tran Quang Tran at an auction at the Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art...
INVISALIGN, a San Jose company, uses 3D printing to make each mouthful of customised, transparent braces. Mackenzies Chocolates, a confectioner in Santa Cruz, uses a 3D printer to pump out chocolate molds. And earlier this year, Cornell University...
Monday, 3 June 2013
A GROUP of Italian factory workers who lost their jobs at an auto component maker due to the recession, have taken over their disused factory near Milan and are planning to set up a recycling business as they struggle for dignity."We were...
WHATEVER their social or political differences, Cairo's residents agree on one thing: the traffic is a nightmare.Increasingly desperate to escape the gridlock and pollution of the Egyptian capital, more people are now using the Nile for their...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
ERMANNO Marzorati has rarely been so busy. He is currently fixing a 1930 Underwood typewriter for Tom Hanks. But there are plenty more ancient writing machines awaiting his tender care.While the modern world taps away in an ever-increasing frenzy...
IT IS just another day in the Vietnamese countryside. A mother lulls her baby to sleep, a boy plays the flute while sitting on a buffalo's back, men and women sing as they harvest rice in the fields and a woman takes a boat through a lake of lotus...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
IT WAS a big day indeed at the Adau Gayoh ceremony held at the Liang Lumut Recreation Centre on May 26.Scores of people, mainly residents of the participating mukims, took part in the celebrations organised by the Brunei Methanol Company, with...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
THE sculpture shows two elderly people hugging each other in an embrace that defies age, immortalising a reunion 60 years after the end of World War II and descent of the iron curtain tore their love apart.A new monument in Kiev unveiled this month...
SINGAPORE is well known as a global financial powerhouse, a gastronomic wonderland and a shiok holiday haven. But as a key player of art and heritage on the international museum scene?Not quite, just yet.But it certainly is on the ascendant as its...
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