Gaumont: 120 Years of Cinema 15 April – 15 May 2016 National Design Centre Free admission French film company Gaumont is one of the most well-established studios in the industry, celebrating in 2015 its 120 years of film production and distribution. The National Design Centre, as an eclectic centre for art, serves as the perfect… Read More Gaumont: 120 Years of Cinema and Retrospective
Occasionally, we introduce and re-introduce sustainable design works. It is a little difficult for the editors and correspondents to overlap writings about arts or design onto environmental issues and animals that are at the brink of their extinction. The exception is when art and design incorporate sustainability or ‘Save-the-World’ concept. We have compiled a list of… Read More Future Architecture ain’t that Far-Fetched: Sustainable Design, Net Zero Carbon, Negative Carbon
Exhibition Dates: 2 April–2 May, 2016 Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–7pm; Sunday, 12–6pm Venue Pearl Lam Galleries, 9 Lock Road, #03-22, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108937 Singapore—Pearl Lam Galleries is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Yang Yongliang. The exhibition is a blend of moving image, photography, and painting, which showcases the expansive size and scope of Yang’s… Read More Solo Exhibition at Pearl Lam, Singapore
Oversized burnt matchsticks created by Wolfgang Stiller. One of Stiller’s recent art installations known as the Matchstickmen (2010) has certainly made himself as a modern impressionist in Germany. Head moulds created during his travels were collected and each was decorated as part of a matchstick. Matchstickmen installation was recently exhibited in Dale, Norway. Read more… Read More Some Burnt Matchsticks
Panda has been the sexy icon for all Sino-related issues: politics, fashion, food, sports, etc. This pseudo-herbivore does not hibernate, and it mainly feeds on bamboo shoots, leaves and roots, occasionally eats small creatures and carcasses. There is always a mass gathering of pandas in public premises. Never the real panda. And even if a… Read More Pandas! Pandas! Pan-da! 大大大熊猫！
Nominations for President’s Design Award 2016 Now Open SINGAPORE, 4 April 2016 – The President’s Design Award 2016 is now open for nominations until Monday, 18 April 2016, 11pm. The President’s Design Award is Singapore’s most prestigious award accorded to designers and design projects or products, in recognition of their design excellence. Into its 11th… Read More Calling for Nominations: President’s Design Award 2016
British Council and Wee Kim Wee Centre, Singapore Management University in partnership with University of Warwick presents The British Council ‘Knowledge is GREAT’ Lecture in Singapore A Panel Discussion featuring Dr Lim Lai Cheng and Dr Lee Chee Keng and moderated by Dr Kirpal Singh will follow. The discussion is taking place today, Register HERE. For any enquiries, please email: education@britishcouncil.org.sg Shakespeare… Read More April 4th, Shakespeare and the Law – British Council ‘Knowledge is GREAT’ Lecture
Mei.com & Alibaba Launch the TMALL Luxury Flash-Sale Channel with Star-Studded Live-Streamed Fashion Show World-class luxury brands featured at event SHANGHAI, CHINA – On March 30th, Mei.com and Alibaba launched the TMALL Luxury Flash-Sale Channel with a live-streamed fashion show event featuring 42 looks, all immediately shoppable through the new channel. Millions of consumers watched the… Read More TMALL Luxury Flash-Sale Channel launched in Shanghai
National Gallery Singapore opens Groundbreaking International Co-Curated Exhibition with Centre Pompidou, Paris Reframing Modernism is now ready for visitors to appreciate modern art paintings. The exhibition is co-curated and co-presented with Centre Pompidou, Paris. Artworks are presented via the history and the bodies of the work. Reframing Modernism is showcased in the Singtel Special Exhibtion… Read More Reframing Modernism
At age 65, Zaha Hadid (b.1950, d. 2016) had given the world not one, but a variety of impressive architecture buildings. Hadid, a Pritzker Architecture Prize 2004 laureate, and the first female to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize (as equivalent to the Noble Prize in the world of architects), passed in Miami on March 31st,… Read More Zaha Hadid: First woman laureate of the Pritzker Prize has passed
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