The Ramayana, one of the two great epics of India, travelled throughout Asia and greatly influenced most of Asia’s storytelling. Adapted by noted storyteller Kamini Ramachandran, this great epic of love, adventure, demons and kings will be retold by Singapore’s best loved storytellers in the oral narrative tradition. Be enchanted and be transported into the realm of ancient legend!

Details are as below:

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Hong Yuelin, Kim

Watermelon PR
Singapore
Phone: + 65- 622 62754

Email: kim@watermelonme.sg

The Everyday Fantastic reinforces and undermines modern myths yet traces a lineage to the international literary and visual art movement in 1940s and 50s American painting and Latin American literature. The works of these artists represent a trajectory in Indonesian art today and revolves about the actual existence of things in the world yet goes beyond a constricting realism, thematically and visually. Collectively, their works present an alternative world of forms and subjects that responds to reality yet brings together what is real, objective and materially present.

The Everyday Fantastic opens on 12 May and will run through to 12 June. The gallery is open from 11.00 am to 7.00 pm from Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11.00 am to 5.00 pm on Sundays and public holidays and is closed on Mondays. The exhibition is held at SBin Art Plus at 140 Hill St. MICA Building #01-10/11/12 Singapore 179369. Contact number: 6883 2001.http://www.sbinartplus.com.

What: Eight Week Beginner Swing Dance Class

Where: Johnny ‘n Luna Swing Studio, Dance On Us, Orchard, 8 Claymore Hill, Claymore Point #01/03/4. Behind DFS Shopping Plaza, between the American Club and HSBC

When: Sundays, beginning Jan 9, 2011, 3:30-4:30pm. Intermediate class from 4:30-5:30. (No class Feb 6 – Spring Festival)

How: Register online by going to http://johnnynlunaswing.netdns.net/ and click Register from the menu. Space is limited, and class is filing up rapidly, so register soon.

Why: Because life is a party!

Johnny ‘n Luna Swing teach an Eight Week Beginner Swing Dance Class at Orchard. Class begins January 9 (no class Feb 6 – Spring Festival)

Swing is an amazingly fun and energetic social dance. You can swing at parties, weddings, and any other celebration, or just out on the town. Swing is one of the most popular dances around the world, and is enjoyed by people of all backgrounds and ages.

Swing Dance is a combination of Jitterbug, Lindy Hop, and Charleston, combined with Modern, Jazz, and Tap styling. Expert dancers add Aerials (throwing the girl over his head).

Swing is the most versatile dance there is: you can Swing extremely slow or incredibly fast, and you can swing dance to just about anything, including Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Pop, and even some Latin music.

Johnny ‘n Luna teach fun and exciting eight-week swing dance classes, after which, you will be able to confidently dance for the rest of your life. While Swing is a partnered dance, you do not need a partner for the class; all guys and gals rotate partners during the class.

With Johnny ‘n Luna Swing lessons, Swing is rapidly becoming a popular dance in Singapore. So join the club, because after all, life is a party. Class space is limited and is filling up rapidly, so pre-register online at our website.

Portraying the joy and happiness that every mother hopes for her child, Tere draws much of her inspiration from watching the world through the eyes of her young daughter Blora.  Reflecting the simplicity and innocence of child’s play, Tere’s showcase of 10 works in various mediums including drawing, sculpture and graphic art, are creative expressions that depict a childlike delight in the discovery of a happy world full of wonders and new experiences.

Tere’s work is natural and unpretentious, bringing into play diverse and multi-interpretive themes that are lightly articulated in uncomplicated forms. Deceptively simplistic at first glance, the art inspires viewers to embark on a journey of self-discovery, to recall and relive the pure childlike innocence that comes with the joy of play. The hope is by doing so, they will be able to reinterpret the world that they now know and perhaps have taken for granted, by looking at it again through the eyes of a child.

Tere has been an active member of artists’ initiative groups in Indonesia, especially in Yogyakarta where she studied art at the Indonesian Institute of Arts.  Her work has been widely exhibited throughout Indonesia and has also participated in group exhibitions in Singapore, Malaysia, Bulgaria and Spain.

Happyartland opens on 3 December and will run through to 24 December. The gallery is open from 11.00 am to 7.00 pm from Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11.00 am to 5.00 pm on Sundays and public holidays and is closed on Mondays. The exhibition is held at SBin Art Plus at 140 Hill St. MICA Building #01-10/11/12 Singapore 179369. Contact number: 6883 2001. http://www.sbinartplus.com.

Pop and Contemporary Fine Art proudly presents the grandfather of Pop Art…Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928 of Czech immigrant parents.  After studying pictorial design and art history, sociology and psychology at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, he moved to New York in 1949.

Andy Warhol Pine Barrens Tree Frog

There he began a very successful career as a commercial artist working with department stores and advertising agencies as well as for Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Glamour and The New York Times.

After his first individual show at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting fifteen drawings based on the Writings of Truman Capote Warhol`s work was exhibited in several other venues during the 1950’s, including his first group show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1956.

Andy Warhol Balck Bean Soup

The 1960’s had been an extremely prolific decade for Warhol and in 1960 came his first pictures of comic strips and company logos. Between 1962 and 1964 he produced over 2,000 pieces at his workshop know as “The Factory”.  Taking images from popular culture, Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art, such as the Campbell’s Soup Cans, Disasters and Marilyns.

During the early 1970’s, Warhol began publishing “Interview” magazine and renewed his focus on painting and in particular commissioned portraits. Warhol began the 1980’s with the publication of POPism, The Warhol ’60’s and with the exhibitions of Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, the Retrospectives and Reversal series.

Andy Warhol Volkswagen

After surviving being shot and seriously wounded by Valerie Solanis in July 1968 the flamboyant Andy Warhol died in 1987 during a routine gallbladder operation. In 1994 The Andy Warhol Museum was opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Andy Warhol will be best remembered as the inventor and most famous exponent of Pop Art where he took the technique of silk screening to a completely new level.  Warhol also had the gift of understanding “defining moments” and important people of a generation and the ability of bringing people together with every day icons and household items. For any collector or enthusiast to begin to appreciate Pop Art, its origins, its development and its soul, Warhol`s works are a must see!

Andy Warhol St George and the Dragon

Pop and Contemporary Fine Art are very happy to give yet another fifteen minutes of fame to a true legend, a troubled genius who has inspired thousands, if not hundreds of thousands in their pursuit of art. All pieces from the exhibition will be available for sale.

Pop and Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Singapore

Pop and Contemporary Fine Art

390 Orchard Road

Palais Renaissance #03-12

Singapore 238871

Tel:          (65) 6735 0959 

Website: www.popandcontemporaryart.com

Tue-Sat: 11:30 – 6:30, Sun: 12:00 – 5:00

Mon: Closed

Andy Warhol - Marilyn 1967