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...Kuala Lumpur's Azizul Abdul Latif, 31, and Izham Fazely, 25, felt similarly when, two years ago, they established PopMalaya. As Latif tells it, they were tired of clothing designs "ripped off" from the U.S., Europe and Japan. So they created their own, melding Jawi, the country's adapted Arabic script, with images of Bas Mini (KL's minibus service) and Tunku Abdul Rahman, the revered father of independence. "We hope that through our designs, people will start to become more observant of themselves and realize that our local culture is rich and colorful in its own right," Latif says...
...amid a violent streetscape. In the background, graffiti from the Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) is scrawled across the walls. The painting's content is explicitly political. "[Sudjojono's] point is that all the artist needs is his paint and brush and he can take on the world," explains Kuala Lumpur gallery owner Valentine Willie. Putting the artist center stage also gave the work a self-referential quality that would be echoed in the paintings of Masriadi and Suwage four decades later...
Samuel Huntington got it wrong, at least when it comes to art. Civilizations don't clash, but share and mutually inspire. So argues "Beyond Orientalism," an exhibition opening on July 25 at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM) in Kuala Lumpur, www.iamm.org.my. The show examines Islamic art's impact on Western artists, highlighting how Islamic calligraphy, tile designs, and geometrical motifs pop up in the most unlikely places, from Tiffany lamps - some of which drew on 16th century Persian works - to the art of M.C. Escher, whose elaborate drawings of endless staircases and interlocking patterns were apparently inspired by Islamic...
...Italian Olympic official said Andyar and other athletes who had previously been training in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, had been in Formia the past month to train, and as a base for European track meets. "We were only the hosts," the Italian official said. "They were in transit here...
...Malaysia A Scandal Revived Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim emerged from the Turkish ambassador's residence in Kuala Lumpur on June 30, a day after he sought sanctuary there following accusations that he sodomized a 23-year-old male aide. Anwar vehemently denied the allegations, which he denounced as political smear tactics fabricated by a coalition government in danger of losing power for the first time since Malaysia gained independence, in 1957. The charges, which have sidetracked Anwar's plans to re-enter Parliament, echo those preceding his 1998 imprisonment for sodomy. That conviction--overturned in 2004--came after...