| Filed under: Gallery | Tags: dendongeng, jai, jalaini abu hassan, pantun, syair, Valentine Willie Fine Art 
Who would have guessed that one of Malaysia’s pre-eminent figurative painter is also literati at heart? Jai ventures into poetry in his recent solo exhibition.
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: art history, collecting art, creation of meaning, jalaini abu hassan, Malaysia, malaysia history, petronas, zulklifi yussof 
by Simon Soon
A visit to Galeri Petronas’s Changing Phases: Relative Spaces proves to be a disappointing encounter with a bland and politically correct account of modern Malaysia. They have failed history.