Nov 8, 2018 | Art, Book Launch, Exhibitions, Festivals, Talk, Workshops
The George Town Literary Festival, founded only in 2011, has already become a cornerstone of Penang’s annual creative calendar. So well-organised that at this year’s London Book Awards it won “The International Excellence Award for a Literary...
Nov 6, 2018 | Art, Exhibitions
This show sets out to showcase upcoming talent from all over Malaysia. Launched as a competition by the Penang Art District, submissions were few but of a fairly good quality. The judges ranged from a plethora of different backgrounds but were able to spot the most...
Nov 4, 2018 | Art, Exhibitions
Richard Wong is a Malaysian Artist from KL. This exhibition is the result of research made in 2009 during a trip to the Canadian Rockies and stems from his love of listening to and being within nature. He described nature as having its own “music”, and chose the title...
Nov 2, 2018 | Art, Exhibitions
Another amazing art exhibition has recently opened at The Art Gallery Penang curated as usual by Ms Ee Lene Tan. Her vision, this time was to invite eight artists to produce artworks which are trendy, that is to say modern, up to date, and stylish, according...
Oct 19, 2018 | Exhibitions, Music, Photography, Recital
It is a rare and welcome opportunity to be able to listen to all three Brahms Sonatas for Piano and Violin. Brahms was a German Romantic composer, often grouped with Beethoven and Bach as one of the “”Three Bs” of music. Brahms composed music...
Oct 15, 2018 | Art, Exhibitions
Anarchist street artist Fauzan Fuad is back in Penang with an exhibition of his work at ChinaHouse Art Space I until November 12th. Although this is his first solo exhibition, Fauzan has been involved with the Penang street art Urban Exchange programme since...