art & culture

Art Collecting 101: Building Your Collection

August 2, 2010
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This is the second installment of my Art Collecting 101 series. Read Part 1 here.   Remember the bygone days of stamp, bottle cap, matchbox or scratch ‘n’ sniff sticker collecting? The sense of satisfaction and happiness that a 20 cent sticker brought? Those were the days before our pocket money got inflated. Despite the hoards of deflationary [...]

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High Finance

July 29, 2010
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Unlike demand & supply, the bard & the economist doth not an equilibrium point  make. That is, until the arrival of Lew Duffey. His poem, High Finance, is like an op-ed imbued with fluid rhythm and rhyme that does poetic justice to the elusive chase for a truly enlightened economy.

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Artists I Like: John Lurie

July 16, 2010

Ever so seldom in this era of mass marketing drama, one stumbles upon a bona fide Renaissance Artiste – visual artist, indie-film star, musician, composer and philosopher. In addition to his music scores for independent classics as Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law, I was drawn to John Lurie’s latest exposition: The [...]

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Art Collecting 101: Introduction

February 3, 2010

Once upon a time, Hugh Grant’s reputation may have been tarnished by a certain not-so-Divine Ms. Brown. What he needed, was a red herring to shift the spotlight away from this peculiar saga. Thanks to a fling with Elizabeth Taylor while soaked up in drunken stupor one evening, he got his wish. I’m referring to the Andy Warhol painting [...]

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Event Alert: Classic Contemporary @ 8Q SAM

January 27, 2010

Classic Contemporary: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art from the Singapore Art Museum Collection Featuring: Agus Sugawe, Suzann Victor, Matthew Ngui, Simryn Gill, Redza Piyadasa, Jim Supangkat, Nindityo Adipurnomo, Agnes Arellano, Natee Utarit and Montien Boonma. Where: Singapore Art Museum at 8Q When: 29 January 22010 to 2 May 2010

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Singapore Artist: Eros de la Astro

December 3, 2009

I am not usually enthusiastic about receiving snail mails these days.  Aside from bills, bills and more bills, I have my complimentary bloomberg magazine to look forward at best… and faux property guru junk mail, at worst. So I was delighted when a package from a local artist who goes by the tagline: Eros de la Astro, finally arrived at my [...]

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Pop Art with CanvasPop

November 24, 2009

With a voracious hegemonic mandate of achieving seamless-ness, Social Media has been extending its tentacles into every nook and cranny of the real economy. Virtual exchanges of gifts and grattitude are great. Online communications, fabulous. But it is after all, still the five senses that govern our innate affinities in the offline world.

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The Artist known as Leon

November 19, 2009

It has been said that his tattoo-works evoke a slight Tim Burtonesque quality. But to compare this reknowned artist-tattoist to anyone, no matter how legendary, would do Leon Lam-Hien‘s art gross injustice.

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Outracing Oneself: An appreciation of Pintor Siriat’s Race Cars Series

October 14, 2009

At some point in the rat race (typically when quarter-life crisis hits), we question blind quests and try to make sense of it. What makes it all worthwhile? What gives life meaning? Why am I working so hard?

The glue that binds it all: Love.

The force that calibrates and centers us all: Love.

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Shop @ Gagosian

October 14, 2009

A chichi Sex in the City-styled alternative to the MoMA Stores comes to New York’s Madison Avenue. Expect to find everything from books to prints to other ”special objects” related to familiar names like Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons. Images via highsnobiety:

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