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...rarely seen works alongside those of contemporary Indonesian artists - among them current auction-market favorites I. Nyoman Masriadi, Agus Suwage and Rudi Mantofani - in a bid to convey the influence Sudjojono has had on generations after him. "Sudjojono is regarded as the theorist of modern Indonesian art," says Kwok Kian Chow, director of the Singapore Art Museum. "He casts a long shadow...
...Kwok On Collection - sometimes called the Pimpaneau Collection - is considered the world's finest trove of Asian theatrical and sacred masks, costumes and related pieces. Originally devoted to Chinese opera (it features, for example, the definitive catalog of memorabilia from the career of Mei Lanfang, the great Beijing Opera master who died in 1961 at the age of 67), the Kwok On Collection numbered thousands of pieces by the time it was housed in a small dedicated museum in Paris in the 1980s. By then, it had fallen into the hands of Jacques Pimpaneau, a French sinologist who added similar...
...both are thought to have died from complicating factors - not the flu itself. (A third child's death has not yet been linked to flu, and is still under investigation.) "I think this year we probably have a little bit more seasonal flu, perhaps more widespread," says Dr. Yuen Kwok-yung, a professor at Hong Kong University and head of the panel. "But it's not more virulent...
...flooding the market with the work of as many artists, new or old, as the market will bear. But how many of those artists have international staying power? "Globalization has persuaded collectors that local Asian artists will become globally important," says the director of the Singapore Art Museum, Kwok Kian Chow. At the same time, the critical literature with which the long-term importance of those artists may be evaluated is, in many cases, nonexistent. "There is a need for a parallel development of museums and art historical knowledge. That will balance the market somewhat," Kwok says. That applies...
...everyone is having an identity crisis. Pinchin Kwok chose to return to her native Singapore last year after living in New York for five years. The 28-year-old banker says she came home for "the good life" and that she's excited by the changes. "Many of the reasons people leave Singapore when they are young will be gone," Kwok says. "Life can only become more cosmopolitan and sophisticated. Everything will be less boring." Kwok adds that she expects Singapore will become "more of a melting pot like Manhattan, but at the core will be the heartlanders...