by Sharon Chin

A visit to Instant Cafe Theatre’s new home – CHAI House, or Instant Cafe’s House of Art and Ideas. With white paint fresh on the walls, the airy one-storey bungalow in Petaling Jaya was glowing with optimism and possibility. Read on for a photo tour and more on the exciting things planned for this great new space.

By Eva McGovern

Birdprayers is an ongoing multi site, multidisciplinary project that combines performance, exhibitions and talks by artists Sara Nuytmans (The Netherlands) and Arya Pandjalu (Indonesia).

by Syed Muhd. Hafiz

The juxtaposition of Ahmad Zakii’s latest series of works, Being and Pramuhendra’s Spacing Identities within the NUS Museum programme continues to facilitate critical insights into Southeast Asian contemporary art.

By Kelvin Chuah

Exhibition Review: When was the last time contemporary Vietnamese Art was featured in its entirety in Kuala Lumpur? I must confess that I am no expert in Vietnamese contemporary art. In a way, I was looking forward to what this exhibition had to offer, in terms of contemporary practice. Man, was I blown away.

by Suraya Warden

Exhibition Review: With Chin Kon Yee: Reality in Wonderland, Wei-Ling Gallery continues its current winning streak of solo shows.

By June Yap

Fare Mondi Making Worlds, the theme for the 53rd Venice Biennale, offers art as visions of realities and imaginings of artists, making its purview the fragments of the personal, the private and internal even as these may unfold and finally take form in the material world that is shared

By Chor Shy Miin

Exhibition Review: ‘Preparations – The Measuring Series’ contains works by three contemporary artists who are currently participating in the first Malaysia-Poland Cultural Exchange and Art Residency Program 2009.

By Eva McGovern

Exhibition Review: Tofu, marzipan and little red pull carts were in my mind as I bent down to look at works by Malaysian artist Umibaizurah Mahir @ Ismail, and Japanese artists Chikako Yoshikawa and Kazuko Uga at the Japan Foundation last Monday night.

By Suraya Warden

Exhibition Review: Artistic mapping is a cool idea. It is visually fun and has a point; one that works extremely well for the South Asian art scene as ‘Cartographical Lure’, the previous exhibition at Valentine Willie Fine Art, proves.

By Suraya Warden

Exhibition Review: Yes, four artists are showing at the current TAKSU exhibition, but not all of them are ‘Fab’.

By Suraya Warden

Review: Chen Wei Meng’s Two Three Six at Wei-Ling Gallery

Lens-curvature panoramas of Terengganu: for all their stunning Malaysian-ness, these pieces also take you elsewhere, making it an ideal local exhibition. A quiet, talented artist and his new solo show.

by Tunyaporn Hongtong

They say the boundary between art and psychosis is a very thin line. Sometimes, the line is so thin that it starts to blur and enables both artists and psychopaths to traffic unhindered.

oleh Yin Shao Loong

Kebelakangan ini, kita telah menyaksikan pergadohan hangat di laman ini. Tapi untuk mereka yang kurang minat bergadoh ‘seni’, bolehlah anda rilek dengan menonton filem baru Nam Ron dan Brenda Danker – Gadoh. Filem ini tidak dapat ditonton di pawagam awam, cuma di teater HELP sahaja, kerana topiknya menyentuh pergadohan perkauman di sekolah kebangsaan Malaysia.

by Yusuf Martin

Since Rafiee Abdul Ghani’s early works – Ingatan dari Gunung (Memory of Mountains -1985) and Green Park 4 (1993), an insightful care and concern for nature’s milieu has been self evident within the artist’s works.

by Bilqis Hijjas

This is a musical of how Prince Siddhartha became the Buddha — a figure whose contribution to humankind, according to the musical, was to teach them to turn away from transient and material happiness, towards more eternal themes. But when his tale of modesty is told with all the pomp and circumstance that can possibly be mustered, doesn’t the term “Buddhist musical” seem an oxymoron?