No Phones Allowed
There are still some places in the world where you are not allowed to take pictures, and Prescott and I have been to a number of these lately. Along with […]
Tag Archives: Museums
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 […]
Crooks and Kickbacks
We visited Singapore’s museum of corruption last week. Yes, Singapore has a museum of corruption, as do Thailand and the Ukraine (I’ve also read that they have one that will […]
Blown From the Sand
While we were in the US this summer, Prescott and I visited the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. This museum was founded in 1951 as a 100-year […]
The Center of the Earth
I am in Greece! My sister, Jocelyn, met me in Athens, and we drove up to Delphi together (by the way, should you ever find yourself waiting for someone at […]
Natural History Then & Now
When William Farquhar came to this part of the world from Britain, he was given the rather weighty title:”First Resident and Commandant of Singapore.” As if that weren’t amazing enough […]
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 […]
