Mid-Autumn Lanterns
It’s mid-autumn again, which means that it is time for another Mid-Autum Lantern Festival at Gardens by the Bay! Despite the haze … … hundreds of people showed up for […]
Haze Days
It’s finally happened: terrible haze has struck the island of Singapore, and it’s so bad that the government says that it has reached an “unhealthy” level for the first time […]
Star Wars Sandsation
It’s that time of year again: the island of Sentosa is hosting Sandsation – Star Wars Edition! That’s a star destroyer crashed on Jakku (Rey’s home planet), by the way […]
China Old and New: The Fashion of Guo Pei
I know nothing about fashion — nothing at all — so when I decided to go see an exhibit of work by Chinese couturiere Guo Pei at Singapore’s Asian Civilisations […]
Night Fest 2019
What is it about Singapore and light festivals? We seem to have a lot of them; I can think of at least three or four annual light-based events. But I […]
Animals of Asia
Wikipedia assures me that the term “fauna of Asia” is “somewhat elusive,” because there is no polite physical boundary between Europe and Asia such that we can distinguish Asian animals […]
Inflatable Extravaganza
The world is filled with strange and wondrous things, and inflatable objects have to be high on the manmade list. That’s Castle of Vooruit, a sculptural installation suspended over the […]
Exploring Boston
There is so much to do in Boston! I have written about a number of options elsewhere — the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), the Tiffany Windows of Arlington Street […]
Sculpture in the Great Outdoors
It’s not the first place one might think to go on a sultry July afternoon in Boston, but the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum turns out to be a lovely […]
The Gilded Age at the MFA
There is so much to see at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) that it’s impossible to do the whole thing well in one day. So I visited the upper […]
