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Alice Neel
1967 Pregnant Julie and Algis Oil on Canvas 42 x 64 inches / 106.7 x 162.6 cm Private Collection This was my favourite painting in the Alice Neel exhibition showing at London’s Whitechapel Museum. (This small, poor-quality image is nothing compared to the actual painting, but was the best I could find.) ‘Pregnant Julie”s expression [...]
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Chang Chien-Chi’s exhibition at the Singapore National Museum featured three main works: the first centering on Taiwanese men and their Vietnamese brides, the second juxtaposing the lives of migrant workers in New York and the families they left behind in Fujian, and the third a collection of portraits of madmen at a Chinese temple. Most [...]
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Singapore Zoo
Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea) devouring a piece of fish. This is one of the two otter species that can be found in Singapore, the other being the Smooth Otter (Lutrogale perspicillata). A good place to look for them would be the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. Caught mid-fruit: a Malayan flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus), which [...]
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Nestled on the third floor of a building in NUS, the compact Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research is impressive but underloved. Entry is free, but evidently the students of NUS had their hands full with other more pressing matters that Tuesday morning. Among the stuffed and suspended animals may be found civet cats, bats and [...]
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