The Ink Flows Through
The National Gallery of Singapore is hosting three connected exhibitions related to Chinese ink art, and I went to see two of them yesterday. I started with an hour-long tour conducted […]
Tag Archives: Museums
Snail Mucus, Horse Oil, or Bee Toxin?
The Istana, the official residence of the President of Singapore, is only open on five public holidays a year — and one of those is the second day of Chinese New […]
(En)countering Colonial Legacies
The title of this post isn’t mine — I’ve borrowed it from the exhibit I went to see yesterday, “Artist and Empire,” at the National Gallery of Singapore. It’s an […]
Escher
On Sunday afternoon, I went down to the ArtScience Museum, which has to be one of the coolest looking buildings in Singapore. It’s the white one with the huge cantilevered sections: The […]
SAM
Today’s adventure took me and my friend Ritika to the Singapore Art Museum, affectionately known around here as SAM. The last time Prescott and I tried to go, the museum was […]
In and Around Chinatown
I had a solo adventure today (Prescott was directing an improv troupe), so I took myself down to an area called Tiong Bahru in search of a bakery and a […]
Singing (and a lot of Christ)
I went to my first rehearsal of the Singapore Symphony Chorus last night. Alas, it may be my last rehearsal as well, because the chorus rehearses downtown — a good […]
Night & Day
We went to Night Festival last night, which was an unexpected delight. Think Light City Baltimore meets ArtScape, and you’ll have some idea of what we experienced: different kinds of […]
You Went Where?
I’ll come clean: my big adventure today involved a trip to the Singapore Philatelic Museum. In layman’s terms, that means that I went to a museum dedicated to stamps. It’s […]
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