by Bill Nguyen

Review: Hoang Minh Duc’s Longan @ Nha San Duc, Hanoi

Intervention of the ‘longan’ in Nha San Duc creates playfully new ways for viewers to engage with the architectural structure of a contemporary art space housed under a traditional Muong stilt house.

by Zedeck Siew

This week on Sightings:

Pray n’ spray. Graffiti in Bangsar celebrates personal salvation of the radical kind.

by ARTERI

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS to take part in Suitcase of Stuff @ Art Expo Malaysia, 19 – 23 November 2009

Submit a suitcase filled with as little or as many artist objects, drawings and mementos to entertain, confuse and tempt viewers to take home some of your baggage!

by Beverly Yong

Passage: Emil Goh, 1966 – 2009

Emil was a super-connector of people and ideas with an unstinting enthusiasm for contemporary art and urban culture. For someone looking in, Emil’s life seemed to be very much about making things happen, and his work about watching things happen, seeing them come together.

by ARTERI

Goings-on is our new weekly newsletter to be updated on Sunday/Monday letting our readers in on art events around town or abroad in the coming week.

Pendatang halal chi too wants to play anak ayam, kejar-kejar, konda kondi with the people over at Dataran Merdeka at the end of each month.

by ARTERI

We now have our own office space in MERAH! And it’s located in the leafy suburb of PJ. While we busy ourselves with the move, here’s a photo gallery of MERAH – a new artist studio/workspace/farm/hangout in Seksyen 17.

by Zedeck Siew

This week on Sightings:

Parliament’s sudden take-over by a burst of bad taste. Democracy, how do I love thee? Let me count the flags.

One, two, three, four, five, six … ah, forget it.

by Bill Nguyen

Review: Nguyen Phuong Linh’s Salt @ Galerie Qunyh

Salt exists in many different forms – as fluid, crystals and air. It also becomes a personal and poetic language that engages with the social history of salt production in Vietnam.

by Dill Malik

I am proud of my grandfather. So proud of him that I wanted to be just as great. News then broke out – he no longer remembers me.

Koge does not remember me.

By Eva McGovern

Review: Liew Kwai Fei’s Paintings for All Ages / Paintings with Extended Space @ No 19 Jalan Berangan

Liew Kwai Fei’s abstract conceptualisations around colour theory, the purity of form, and objectivity.

by Alex Yong

Tony Twigg’s Vib ra fon: Solo Exhibition @ Galeri Taksu

The exhibition opening of former Rimbun Dahan resident artist Tony Twigg. The event also launched a 94-page full colour book on the artist’s work, published by www.slot.net.au with the assistance of the Australia-Malaysia Institute.

by Zedeck Siew

Sightings is a new series of posts based on curious specimens of visual culture collected around Malaysia.

First up: the strange manifestation of an Internet celebrity’s big blue thing! What does it say about Google’s forays into the real world?

by Alex Yong

CHAI House official opening: 15 Aug 2009

The opening of CHAI House was a great event, graced by the presence of YB Deputy Minister of Space and Tourism. Now CHAI is government approved. Alhamdulillah! Enjoy some scenes from the evening.

by Tan Zi Hao

Inside: a photogallery of handwritten signs, advertising agencies, and abstracted pictograms affixed to household grills!

Part two of a local boy’s typographical adventure to decipher the visual language of the New Village.