Clement Yong

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SINGAPORE – Artist-educator Sim Tong Khern, one of Singapore’s first “street artists” and a core member of early life drawing group Group 90, has died aged 95. His funeral was held at Mandai Crematorium on May 26. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. Sim, born in Singapore in 1930, is best known for his large-scale public paintings of streets next to the Singapore River.

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Threshold Lives: On Presence Without RecognitionSwiss artist Ursula Palla has an eclectic solo at Tang Contemporary Art, inserting scenes of nature into the Delfi Orchard gallery more accustomed to showing commercial paintings. In overseas shows, she incorporated unconventional materials such as moulded sugar, coal dust and snow, but the ones chosen for this tropical clime are decidedly more durable. In the show curated by Sue Oh, gun metal is melted down and sculpted into tall stalks of fireweed.

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Elegant Sounds: Music, Craft, And The Literati positions the guqin (Chinese zither) at the centre of Chinese learning. PHOTO: ASIAN CIVILISATIONS MUSEUMSINGAPORE – The mark of a scholar in ancient China was his mastery of the four arts: qin (zither), qi (chess), shu (calligraphy) and hua (painting).