| Filed under: News | Tags: graffiti, Meeting of Styles KL, mohd bakir baharom, Pekan Frinjan, shaifuddin mamat, small talk with the moon, Yee I-Lann 
So much stuff on the art calendar! Here’s what you should check out this weekend: Graffiti on the Klang River, Pekan Frinjan, young artists & Yee ILann’s Fluid World.
| Filed under: Essays, News | Tags: gan chin lee, Malaysia, malaysia emerging artists award, mohd al-khuzairie ali, mohd bakir baharom, samsudin wahab, shaifuddin mamat 
by Simon Soon
On Malaysia Emerging Artists Award (MEA): I’m not necessarily a fan of art competition, but the kind of media attention, spectacle and drama that surround an art award (the stuff that art purists would balk at) form the appealing recipe for creating the much needed buzz and encouragement to introduce new comers into the heady, treacherous yet occasionally rewarding art life.