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And so 2011 ends. But my year of being in-between homes is hardly over. I started this year on a plane (literally) from home in New York to home in Singapore. And it is perhaps fitting that I end this … Continue reading
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When I reflect on my past year (and a half) of constant travel, it’s clear to me that 2011 has been defined by my being in-between homes. To put it another way: Home, for me, has been an In-between Place. … Continue reading
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So I read somewhere that Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where I live in New York), is a street art junkie’s nirvana. You can’t walk down two blocks without encountering a surprising piece of work. I decided to test that hypothesis out myself … Continue reading
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A few days ago, I went to the United Nations Headquarters for the first time, specifically to check out an exhibition Design with the other 90%: Cities, that featured design-based solutions for urban issues in cities of the developing world. … Continue reading
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For those you who work in museums, you would have heard this from your bosses or patrons: how can we make museum-going more experiential? Last weekend, I had a taste of just how experiential museum-going could be, at the spectacular … Continue reading
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The second part of my 2-part post, and the 4th in the Art & the City series, takes me back to Suzhou, China – known traditionally throughout Chinese history as the city of culture and the literati. The Suzhou Museum … Continue reading
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I meant for this blogpost to be a comparative analysis between the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, and its sister museum, the Suzhou Museum, both designed by the American architect, I.M. Pei (who most famously plonked an inverted pyramid … Continue reading
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Had a couple of deadlines this week but I’m back with a vengeance. Ah Venice! There’s something about being there, knowing that hundreds of years ago, it looked almost exactly the same as it does now. It’s the ultimate time-bubble, … Continue reading
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Liverpool is the textbook case of an entire city rejuvenated through culture. Once a bustling and affluent port and manufacturing centre in Britain, the city went into sharp decline from the mid-1970s due to the advent of containerization and neo-liberalism … Continue reading
Dream Of A City 