Love or Hate? The Museum of Old & New Art
Prescott and I are in in Tasmania! Specifically, we are in Hobart, the island’s capital and largest city (though at 225,000 people, “city” seems a generous term). This seafaring hub […]
Tag Archives: Art
Academic Culture: NUS Museum
Yesterday I paid a visit to the NUS Museum, home to the National University of Singapore’s art collection. Why you might go: there’s some good art here, and the museum’s […]
The Peranakan Life: Visiting Baba House
Last weekend, Prescott and I made a trip down to NUS Baba House, a heritage museum that gives visitors a glimpse into life in an early twentieth century Peranakan house. […]
The City of Music and Dreams
Music abounds nearly everywhere in Vienna’s center city — even if you can’t hear it, someone in a fancy fake Renaissance outfit will step out and try to sell you […]
The Vienna of God and the Emperors
After visiting universities in Holland, I took a short flight to Austria for a conference. If the Netherlands is cozy, Vienna is stately — it’s clear that the Austrian Habsburgs […]
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 […]
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 […]
