This week is filled with events you don't wanna miss out on, from Japanese modern design to bossa nova, indie music at its best and hard dance to rock the beats in your heart!
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Don't panic! This month, we present an abridged guide to your rights as a Malaysian citizen. Are makeshift gated communities legal? Do you have any rights in a street demonstration? Well, go find out!
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Valentine Willie Fine Art (VWFA) is a regional powerhouse when it comes to the visual arts. This year's CUT, the photography platform's third edition, demonstrates the gallery's Southeast Asian clout. Read more
The latest offering from GALERI PETRONAS is indeed an intriguing one. The walls of the gallery will serve as a temporary home to the highly anticipated Sony World Photography Awards (WPA) 2009/2010 Global Tour exhibition. Read more
We quiz Nani Kahar, one of the people behind Solaris Dutamas's upcoming artistic spaces -- the Black Box and White Box -- on what they seek to achieve, and how. Read more
Rimbun Dahan will be exhibiting works of art by local and international artists who have taken up year-long stays at the 14-acre home belonging to architect, Hijjas Kasturi, and his wife, Angela, under the Malaysia-Australia Visual Artist Residency. Read more
We've been liking less-publicised histories for a while now; in the white-washed Grand Malaysian Project, it's a wellspring of ideas. The latest thing to happen at The Actors Studio @ Lot 10 will be Women of Silk River, a devised play about the traditional amah. Read more
Painter Jeganathan Ramachandram has been with us for a while. Since the start of his artistic career in 1984, Jeganathan has exhibited at places such as the National Art Gallery and Galeri PETRONAS. His work is typically mystical at heart – the artist is an adherent of Vasthu Shastra, a Hindu architectural principle based on classical elements. Read more
The last time they were here, Les Ballets Grandiva’s Men in Tutus won the hearts of KLites with a thing or two about serious ballet that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Local daily, The Star, even pointed out that their act was “toe-taly funny… most hilarious”. That was eight months ago though, and it’s about time that the “boys-on-pointes” are pirouetting on the Malaysian stage. Read more
Accessibility is, perhaps, the biggest (and perennial) challenge facing the Malaysian visual arts. In a society where art itself is a ghetto, the stuff that gets exhibited in galleries – enclosed spaces secreted in nooks within the city – is easily missed by an oblivious population.
Writing on the visual arts, therefore, plays a vital role. It’s the bridge that connects artists and their work to audiences. In a sense, though, the “bridge” metaphor is all too true: writing about visual arts connects a single point (artists) to another single point (the pre-existing, trained visual arts audience). Read more
Instant Café Theatre's CHAI House has been a hotbed of activity since it opened in August. Running under month-long themes, the space has been hosting theatrical readings, talks, even guided walking tours around KL.
So what's up next? Food! Read more
We've all tried to figure out Malaysia's public transport problem, but here are artists' views with a light political twist. Read more
