Television Time: An Interview with Gideon Bradshaw, Producer of BBC’s The Planets

“It seems that every 10 years, there’s a series about the planets that comes around,” says producer Gideon Bradshaw. He’s not wrong there – in 1999, BBC Two’s highly successful mini-series The Planets was launched, featuring appearances from famous pioneering space scientists and explorers, archival footage from both US and Soviet space programmes and narrated by Samuel West. About a decade later in 2011, BBC Two … Continue reading Television Time: An Interview with Gideon Bradshaw, Producer of BBC’s The Planets

Ding Yi Music Company Awarded The Third Singapore Chinese Cultural Contribution Award (Organisation)

Ding Yi Music Company has received the third Singapore Chinese Cultural Contribution Award (Organisation), awarded by the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre. Having started in 2017, the award recognises individuals and organisations from various arts and culture sectors in Singapore, who have made outstanding contributions in the promotion, enrichment and development to the Singapore Chinese culture. Since being founded in 2007, Ding Yi has made major … Continue reading Ding Yi Music Company Awarded The Third Singapore Chinese Cultural Contribution Award (Organisation)

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) presents Dane Lovett

SYDNEY – Melbourne-based painter Dane Lovett’s 2019 solo exhibition takes as its starting point an anecdotal link between Georgia O’Keefe’s 1930’s Jack-in-the-Pulpit series and Lovett’s own ongoing series of dog portraits. Poisonous if ingested, Arisaema triphyllum is lethal to pets. This tenuous but violent link reflects a particular interest in the behavior of images in cyberspace where incongruity and free distribution allows for slippages between the iconic and the everyday, the … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) presents Dane Lovett

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) presents Future Past – Tradition & Transgression In Contemporary Art From Asia

SYDNEY – At Sullivan + Strumpf Sydney’s latest exhibition, titled Future Past: tradition and transgression in contemporary art from Asia, the gallery brings together fourteen contemporary artists working across East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific to consider the ways in which current art practices in the region interface with limits of historically determined artistic and cultural boundaries, and how these collisions of past and present might inform one … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) presents Future Past – Tradition & Transgression In Contemporary Art From Asia

Preview: TGIF Music Station June – July 2019 at Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

The Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre is back with their seasonal dose of TGIF Music Station, adding a dose of joy to your Fridays with a line-up of Mandarin tunes. Happening every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, expect to see artistes such as Jayden Chia, Joanne T. Zuo En, Pek Si Ming, Psquare, Yap Hui Xin on afternoons in June and July, while for … Continue reading Preview: TGIF Music Station June – July 2019 at Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

Singapore International Piano Festival 2019: An Interview with Pianist Ronan O’Hara

The 26th edition of the Singapore International Piano Festival returns this May and brings together four of the world’s best virtuoso pianists, each performing solo at the Victoria Concert Hall over the four day festival. In the lead-up to the performances, we spoke to veteran British pianist Ronan O’Hora, who has performed in every major country in Europe and the USA, Canada, Australasia and South … Continue reading Singapore International Piano Festival 2019: An Interview with Pianist Ronan O’Hara

Singapore International Piano Festival 2019: An Interview with Pianist Sa Chen

The 26th edition of the Singapore International Piano Festival returns this May and brings together four of the world’s best virtuoso pianists, each performing solo at the Victoria Concert Hall over the four day festival. In the lead-up to the performances, we spoke to Chinese pianist Sa Chen, whose playing has been described by the legendary Paul Badura Skoda as a pianist “like an angel from … Continue reading Singapore International Piano Festival 2019: An Interview with Pianist Sa Chen

Golden Village Movie Club Presents: Ugly Dolls Kids’ Party

The ugly but adorable stuffed toys you may have seen retailing at various shops have apparently become so popular, they’re getting their very own feature film. Releasing in cinemas islandwide on 6th June, Golden Village Movie Club members get a special preview this Saturday with a special Ugly Dolls Kids’ Party, where not only will you be able to catch the movie in full, you’ll … Continue reading Golden Village Movie Club Presents: Ugly Dolls Kids’ Party

Paradigm Shift in the Arts Industry with Technological Inclusions

  Art Moments Jakarta (AMJ) held its inaugural art fair in Indonesia earlier this month, 3rd to 5th May 2019, at Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel, and made waves in the Southeast Asia contemporary art market. The highly successful event was attended by over 10,000 unique visitors, art collectors and art-lovers, having curated a strong and diverse group of artworks by some of the … Continue reading Paradigm Shift in the Arts Industry with Technological Inclusions

Television Time: BBC Shows June 2019

This June, Pick up new cooking tips and tricks from celebrity chef Donal Skehan in Donal’s Meals in Minutes (Series 2), explore the amazing planets that live alongside Earth in a stunningly ambitious docudrama – The Planets, and gain a deeper understanding of America’s death penalty system in Life and Death Row (Series 2). BBC EARTH The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body? Could placebos be used to … Continue reading Television Time: BBC Shows June 2019