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Gov Monitor, 17 Mar 2011The National Arts Council (NAC) announced today three new initiatives to boost the development of traditional arts in Singapore.A total of $23 million, provided under the five-year National Traditional Arts Plan will be dedicated to improving the quality of productions, growing potential peak companies as well as increasing audience base and accessibility to the art form.

CNNGo.com, 27 Feb 2011Firstly, what is ArtScience? The broad term can be applied to anything and while it offers the museum endless options, it also poses the risk of ambiguity. For some, this particular classification is as thought-provoking as the museum's architecture.Designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the building is shaped like a lotus flower in bloom, and sits on a small,

Malay Mail Online, 27 Jan 2011THE word that springs to mind after watching the play Model Citizens at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) is 'realistic'.The thought provoking production by The Necessary Stage from Singa­pore is realistic in many ways - in their narrative, props, emotions and expressions.Model Citizens revolves around three women who are linked through an unexpected

Artinfo.com, 19 Jan 2011The first edition of Art Stage Singapore ended on Sunday and reported strong sales and a lively atmosphere, logging a total of 32,000 visitors who came to see contemporary artwork shown by 121 galleries from 26 countries. Fair director Lorenzo Rudolf — who helmed Art Basel from 1991 to 2000, founding Art Basel Miami Beach and later Shanghai's ShContemporary — said in a

CNNGo.com, 17 Jan 2010I still don’t really see the relation between art and science, and besides the nine public art projects planned around the museum, these things seem more of an exercise in aesthetics.Competent art nerds, will, nonetheless, have their intelligence smeared in their faces as the museum is divided into three convenient categories -- Curiosity, Inspiration and Expression -- which

Bloomberg, 12 Jan 2011A tattooed love-heart showing just below the sleeve of his shirt, artist David LaChapelle is waving his hands in the air as he describes a work to Chinese-American collector Richard Chang over lunch at a rooftop restaurant.Opposite him at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands hotel, Christie’s International’s Jakarta chief Amalia Wirjono is giving a potted history of Indonesian art

Monsters and Critics, 9 Jan 2011Singapore - Thousands of international art collectors, gallery owners and art lovers were expected to converge in Singapore when the curtain rises Wednesday on the highly anticipated inaugural Art Stage Singapore.With more than 100 of the world's leading and up-and-coming galleries promising to display the best of Asia's fragmented art scenes at the five-day event,

Reuters, 29 Dec 2010Singapore's Marina Bay Sands will open the world's first ArtScience museum in February, the latest attraction at its $5.5 billion gambling complex built by U.S. casino giant Las Vegas Sands. With a form reminiscent of a lotus flower designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, .... Full storyRelated:Marina Bay Sands to open world's first ArtScience museum - Casino City Times

Deccan Chronicle, 19 Dec 2010Singapore-based CarnaticRadio.com, a 24x7 radio station dedicated entirely to carnatic music, is co-sponsoring SIFAS’s Chennai festival, which according to Dr Kasinathan, will help the students of SIFAS gain experience performing alongside seasoned artistes in the globally hailed Margazhi festival of Chennai.“We hope to enlarge our Chennai festival next year by