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Britain’s Got Talent turned a sonsie lass into The Susan Boyle.

Amidst the aroma emanating from the melting pots, Top Chef sniffed out a winner in Vietnamese Hung Hyunh. 

Laced with countless catwalks, Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model weaved together competing fashionistas, mannequins and creative beacons to produce one sensational fabric that redefined professional bitchiness.

Now, thanks to this ménage à trois : Sarah Jessica Parker’s Pretty Matches Productions, Magical Elves, Inc and the Bravo network, reality TV has wormed its way into Art World.

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World’s Top 200 Collectors

As much a must-read for art veterans as it is for débutants, this list is not just a social directory detailing the who’s-whos.

Those talking heads that unfortunately do not make infrequent appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg TV? Well, if like me, you are unwittingly given daily audio-visual exposure to all that incessant noise in surround sound mode, then you would have developed the filtering instinct for knowing exactly WHO deserves more than just a casual glance for the wrong aesthetic reasons, and WHEN your ears should perk up and listen.

The Top 200 list offers names of some of the art industry’s equivalent of market movers - the Warren Buffet, Mark Mobius and George Soros of Art World. (more…)

Talk about synergy between internet technology and the Arts. Guggenheim Museum will be leveraging on Google Earth and Google SketchUp in a global design competition: Design It: Shelter Competition. (more…)

Remember the infantile urges that instinctively prompted us to surge uncontrollably, armed with a handful of Caran d’Ache crayons,  toward the freshly painted white walls that surrounded our playpens?

As surely as the infamous WWII Japanese pilots were convinced of the nobility of their cries for Kamikaze!, I recall charging toward the nearest available wall screaming Gwafitti! Like many teething toddlers, the potent combination of rebellious tendencies and an aesthetism-centric inclination overwhelmed my parents… but as history has shown, neither the Zero pilots  nor myself  got away unpunished.

So I grew up… alongside our governing Arts bodies who have evidently come of age too. In a display of creative enlightenment, the NAC is loosening its parental reigns, by encouraging emerging artists to regress and live out the aforesaid  ‘fantasies.’

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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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