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Century of Light – Exhibitions: 16 Nov 2017–11 Mar 2018
Century of Light features two exhibitions, Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay and Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna, that demonstrate the range of painting styles and art movements that developed in 19th century Europe during the post-enlightenment period of innovation and change.
Exhibition: Glorious: earthly pleasures and heavenly realms
news about Art Stage Singapore – Jan 2018
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 2 December 2017
After Darkness: Southeast Asian Art in the Wake of History Through Jan. 21 at Asia Society
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Exhibition: Light with Ink: 18 AUG – 18 SEP 2017 – Click on image
Posted by Benjamin Milton Hampe on Monday, 21 August 2017
Malay artefacts on exhibit at Singapore National Library
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 20 August 2017
The Art House, Singapore, 3 AUG – 3 SEP 2017
24 June – 12 November 2017 at the Art Gallery of NSW
A new research book has been published by the National Gallery of Singapore. It contains essays on Southeast Asian art by 25 scholars. One of the contributing scholars is Gael Newton.
The book is available from the NGS shop and through their website – click here.
There’s an article in Straits Times about photographer Koh Kim Chay and his decades of photographing the ubiquitous government flats of Singapore.
There’s a wonderful set of photographs by Eduardo Masferre presently on exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
Rodel Tapaya has become ‘a must purchase’ by collectors of contemporary Southeast Asian art.
Click here for the news on this amazing auction sale.
click on image for the report
click on graphic for some events during Singapore Art Week.
This exhibition at the Asian Civilisation Museum is a wonderful experience that awaits those willing to spend the time with the objects, read the catalogue and maybe make a second visit (or more).
click on graphic above for the web site for Singapore Art Week.
click on image for news notice – or here for the museum link
click on image for news on exhibition – or here to link to ACM
The Straits Times reports on a growth in numbers of people who attended national museums and heritage institutions in 2015.
For many years tourists regarded Singapore as a stop over to somewhere else. Most spent a night or three but rarely much more.
The 2016 Singapore Biennale, a festival of South East Asian visual art, is now on till 26 February 2017.
Click on image for the link.
Organised in association with Tate Britain, the Gallery’s second international exhibition explores the different ways in which the British Empire has been represented and contested through art.
This is the fifth SIPF – click here for their 2016 website
27 October 2016 – 27 February 2017
