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...Chia Thye Poh detained since...
...Chia, 49, was a member of Parliament representing the opposition Barisan Sosialis (Socialist Front) when he was arrested for allegedly advocating armed struggle against the government of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Over the years, Singapore officials offered to free Chia, who has never been tried, if he would renounce violence. But he refused, maintaining that he had never espoused it in the first place. Last May Chia was sent into a bizarre internal exile on Sentosa, a tiny tourist island just off Singapore's main isle. He is * allowed visitors and free run of the island, where...
...that he is pruning his collection, the bewilderment is great. What artists fear is not so much that their prices will falter -- though that happened to Italy's Sandro Chia when Saatchi dumped him -- as that new traders can move in and, by buying blocks from Saatchi, bypass the artists' dealers and force prices up out of all proportion to those of their new work. Robert Ryman, one of whose chaste minimalist paintings made $1.8 million at auction recently (gallery prices: from $50,000 to $300,000), now thinks it "unfortunate" that he ever let Saatchi have twelve...
...show has a dying fall into the rhetoric of the '80s, represented here for the umpteenth time by Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente and Mimmo Paladino. These figures have become quasi-official artists, like the stars of the Paris salons a century ago. Yet when the '80s have receded, it will seem odd that the feeble draftsmanship in Clemente's washed-out frescoes should once have been applauded, or that the lurid bombast of even the better works of Cucchi, such as the droopy head that lies like a huge Dalinian watch along the cemetery roof in Stupid Picture...
Chew was one of 22 persons arrested under the IS in May and June of 1987, during a government crackdown on dissent. These arrests marked the first time in a decade that new arrests had been made under the IS, although one prisoner, Chia Thye Poh, has been held without trial since 1966 on account of his nonviolent political opinions. Chew Kheng Chuan and the others arrested with him in 1987 had never publicly supported the use of violence; rather, they were apparently arrested for their involvement in various church and student groups, community activities and peaceful political opposition...