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I was told that Lego employees have, as part of their name card inventory, pieces of personalized Lego figurines crafted in their likeness, complete with their names and designations.

Talk about functional creativity and business efficacy. How cool is that!

The seduction of this creative initiative was so strong that I had a 60 milli-second fantasy about  ditching my current employment in Investo-land to spring on board Lego land! Too bad for me that my CV doesn’t even so much as whisper let alone scream “relevance” into the ears of Lego’s HR department.

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Attention Singapore / Singapore-based visual artists!

The NAC and SAM are calling for visual art works to be submitted for the upcoming Singapore Art Exhibition 2009 to be held between 21 August to 4 October.

Submission period is from 1 – 30 June 2009 (9am – 5pm)

The Theme this year is a palatable ART BUFFET SINGAPORE! where artists will have a buffet spread of 12 themes to respond to: Food, Material, Ritual, Spectrum, Signs, Gesture, Craft, Body, Time, Space, Order and Humour.
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Bansky is “the artist who perfectly sums up the early 21st century”

Acoris of Andipa Gallery might just as well have pulled the trigger of a stun gun at me… ‘cos my inner monologue was momentarily stunned. Like a broken record in denial and worse, on repeat mode, it insisted on quering:

Bansky… the vandalizer?

Bansky… the world reknowned defacer of public property?

British idol to American Michael Fay who would have gladly tripled his caning sentence if only it were delivered by The Bansky? (more…)

I have been waiting on the edge for some sign (or signs, if I could be granted providential permission to exercise a little greed) that Asia’s art markets are finally emerging from its Lehman-Morgan-Merrill-AIG-induced doldrums.

Last evening’s Christie’s Asian Contemporary Art and Chinese 20th Century Art sale in Hong Kong, saw 34 or its 38 lots sold. Raking in a total of HK$181.7m, the spectacular auction results outperformed pre-sales estimates by close to double. Just when industry know-it-alls were coming out to dismiss Asian contemporary art as nothing more than an irrational speculative fad, a streak of optimism in the horizon appeared to suggest otherwise. (more…)

If the Netherworld were as fiery as typically depicted, it could do with water from one of the many “dams” that the Netherlands has at its disposal.

Feeble jokes aside, this entry is really about my unwitting abandonment of what was to be a  7 day trip to the cultural city of Rotterdam. And since this entry is inadvertently going to stray off-course into the whiny-post realm, I might as well come clean: I Need to Whine.

Just like losing out on paper profits – potential profits that traders harp on when indulging in hind-sight analysis of what they should have done but didn’t do, this is a list of  highlights I will be losing out on this weekend:

1. Modern & Innovative Architecture

Known as “The City of Cities”, Rotterdam’s inner-city was reduced to nothing after the World War II aerial bombing. The destruction of much that was old, paved the way for a renewal of ideas and a new lease of life – a mandate that made this city especially famous for its modern architecture.

Well, at least by sparing Rotterdam’s marvellous architecture from my very amateurish pseudo-photographer disposition and cheap camera, I will not be doing a disservice to the artistry of the cityscape.

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Big or small, Size matters. It always does.

With the addition of an awesome new Modern wing, the Art Institute of Chicago will see its status elevated to that of the second largest museum in the United States.

More space, more collections, greater exposure and better education  for all.

Cool.  

Victory couldn’t be more delectable!
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