Home of the Big Mango
I’ve spent the past two days in Bowen, Australia. When you come to town, you are first greeted by this unusual structure: Yes, that’s exactly what it looks like: a […]
Tag Archives: Art
Sandsational!
The island of Sentosa has just finished hosting “Sentosa Sandsation,” billed as Southeast Asia’s biggest sand festival. I have no idea what the competition might be for this title — […]
Return to the Granite Island
On Sunday, Prescott and I went with a group of Singapore American School science teachers and a handful of students for an educational morning visit to Pulau Ubin, a small […]
When the Sun Goes Down
Singapore has multiple nighttime light festivals — i Light Marina Bay and Light to Night are two of the bigger ones — but the Singapore Night Festival is the largest […]
Beach Beasties
Everett, Anna, Prescott and I went to an exhibit at the ArtScience Museum called Wind Walkers: Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests. I’m not sure I can describe how strange and delightful this […]
Collecting a Collection
The National Gallery Singapore is hosting its last weekend of an exhibit called (Re)Collect, which is designed as a retrospective on the museum’s founding and how its collection has changed over […]
Art for a New Asia
Today I visited an exhibit featuring the best of the best of the competitors vying for the Singapore Art Museum’s APB Foundation Signature Art Prize (that’s a mouthful, I know). […]
Angkor in Singapore
Singapore’s Asian Civilizations Museum is hosting an exhibit called “Angkor: Exploring Cambodia’s Sacred City,” which looks at the Khmer temples in and around Angkor Wat and the ways that French […]
Taiwan’s Heritage
Taiwan as we know it today was founded in 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist forces fled from mainland China at the conclusion of their civil war against Mao’s […]
There’s Heat in Them Thar Hills
New Zealand has a unique — and somewhat precarious — geological position: it sits at the edge of both the Australian and the Pacific tectonic plates. These plates are always […]
