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Preview: The Remembering Resource (II) by Grain Performance and Research Lab

Photo credits (A Memory Search, 1993): Koh Nguang How/Ho Keen Fi More than 25 years ago, Ang Gey Pin, a veteran theatre director and actress, together with the other members of the now-defunct Theatre OX (1995-2007), journeyed to live in an abandoned zen centre in Pulau Ubin for rigorous work on the craft of performance. As one of the first ensemble-based theatre groups in Singapore, … Continue reading Preview: The Remembering Resource (II) by Grain Performance and Research Lab

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Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum and Shanghai Museum jointly present The Baoli Era – Treasures from the Tang Shipwreck

SHANGHAI, CHINA – To commemorate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Singapore, China’s Shanghai Museum and Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum have launched a new joint exhibition, The Baoli Era: Treasures from the Tang Shipwreck Collection, on 14th September 2020. Held at the Shanghai Museum, a total of 248 artefacts are on display, including 168 treasures from the Asian Civilisations Museum’s Tang Shipwreck exhibition, … Continue reading Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum and Shanghai Museum jointly present The Baoli Era – Treasures from the Tang Shipwreck

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Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum celebrates the Majulah Spirit with lineup of online activities

In celebration of Singapore’s 55th birthday, the Asian Civilisations Museum is offering up a myriad of online programmes accessible online. Rediscover our rich cross-cultural art and heritage through these masterpieces from ACM’s collection, traversing galleries with self-guided tours, instructions for DIY crafts, and interactive stories. Highlights include National Day classics with the Lorong Boys, live pre-registered portrait illustration, a National Day-themed self-guided trail, educational online … Continue reading Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum celebrates the Majulah Spirit with lineup of online activities

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Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum Wins Best Design Exhibition At 2019 Global Fine Art Awards

The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) was awarded the Global Fine Art Awards’ (GFAA) Best Design Exhibition, for its first fashion-focused exhibition, Guo Pei: Chinese Art and Couture. The exquisite showcase, which spotlighted art through couture in a juxtaposition of masterpieces created centuries apart, emerged on top against internationally renowned institutions, with Denver Art Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art’s Dior: From Paris to the … Continue reading Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum Wins Best Design Exhibition At 2019 Global Fine Art Awards

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Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum Opens New Permanent Exhibition Featuring Asian Crafts, Textiles and Jewellery

The Asian Civilisations Museum will celebrate a major milestone on Saturday, 4th April 2020, with the unveiling of its third-floor galleries, marking the completion of the museum’s multi-year refresh as Singapore’s museum of Asian antiquities and decorative art. The third-floor galleries are focused on decorative art, and are collectively themed Materials and Design. The two new galleries, Fashion and Textiles, and Jewellery, together with the refreshed … Continue reading Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum Opens New Permanent Exhibition Featuring Asian Crafts, Textiles and Jewellery

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Museum Musings: 2219 – Futures Imagined at the ArtScience Museum

While most institutions and organisations may be busy celebrating our Bicentennial this year, the ArtScience Museum has gone in quite the opposite direction with their newest exhibition, as they instead celebrate our future, 200 years later. With 2219: Futures Imagined, the ArtScience Museum takes inspiration from local poet Alvin Pang to present a speculative exhibition of works from over two dozen artists, architects, filmmakers, writers and theatre companies from Singapore and … Continue reading Museum Musings: 2219 – Futures Imagined at the ArtScience Museum

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Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum presents Living with Ink – The Collection of Dr Tan Tsze Chor

This November, the Asian Civilisations Museum is set to present the largest showcase of the late Dr Tan Tsze Chor’s esteemed Xiang Xue Zhuang Collection, inviting visitors to experience the passion of Chinese art and connoisseurship, and to explore the collection’s cultural impact and influence in advancing the arts scene among the local Chinese community in 1950s–80s Singapore. Living with Ink: The Collection of Dr Tan Tsze Chor features … Continue reading Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum presents Living with Ink – The Collection of Dr Tan Tsze Chor

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Museum Musings: Disney – Magic of Animation at the ArtScience Museum

If you’re feeling nostalgic and long for the animated films of your childhood, then you’re in for a treat this October as the ArtScience Museum presents Disney: Magic of Animation. Offering visitors the rare opportunity to experience over 90 years of Disney’s animation, visitors will even get to see original artworks from the highly-anticipated film, Frozen 2, set for release later this year. From Steamboat Willie (1928), the first … Continue reading Museum Musings: Disney – Magic of Animation at the ArtScience Museum

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Taking A Trip: Beyond the Road at the Saatchi Gallery (Review)

UNKLE and Punchdrunk unite to create an explosive, immersive exploration of belief, life and death. LONDON – A Punchdrunk experience, loosely described, feels something like a trippy fever dream, bringing audience members into a sprawling, labyrinthine world that toes the line between imagination and reality. Darkly imaginative, intricately detailed and with a flair for the theatricality at every turn, suffice to say, it’s an experience that … Continue reading Taking A Trip: Beyond the Road at the Saatchi Gallery (Review)

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Museum Musings: ArtScience Museum Celebrates Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary with Moongazers

In conjunction with their ongoing Floating Utopias exhibition, the ArtScience Musuem is set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing on the moon with a special event titled Moongazers. Taking place from 18th to 20th July, Moongazers explores the reverberations of Apollo 11’s achievement today and looks into our complex fascination with the Moon through a variety of performances, films, talks and workshops. At the centre of Moongazers is Luke Jerram’s breathtaking Museum of Moon installation, where various programmes … Continue reading Museum Musings: ArtScience Museum Celebrates Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary with Moongazers

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