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ANCIENT EGYPT

Quest for Immortality - The World of Ancient Egypt

Venue
Exhibition Galleries 1 & 2, Basement - NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SINGAPORE
Date
TUE 22 DEC 2009 - SUN 4 APR 2010 10:00am - 6:00pm

The ancient Egyptian world is often characterised by a fascinating and remarkably supple mental universe. Ancient Egyptians melded images in ways that often beggar logic. They linked material elements with a realm inaccessible to humans, as reflected both in their daily conduct and their emphasis on the afterlife that led to their quest for immortality. Quest for Immortality – The World of Ancient Egypt offers an insight to the ancient Egyptian’s attitude to life and the afterlife, and the preparations they made to ensure their transition from earthly existence to immortality. Discover the Egyptians’ means of equipping the dead – through mummification, provision of sustenance, magic and ritual – and explore the evolution of their burial rites as well as the changing relationship between man and ritual through time. With 230 artefacts spanning from 4000 BCE to 950 CE, this exhibition endeavours to place tomb objects in their social, religious and artistic context, demonstrating the diversity and adaptability of an art that has prevailed in both time and space.

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FREE GUIDED TOURS Meeting point:

Entrance of Exhibition Galleries, BasementLimited to 15 participants per session on a first come, first served basis.Estimated tour duration: 60 minutes
English (from Monday 4 January 2010)

Mondays to Fridays
11.30am & 2.30pm

Saturdays and Sunday
11.30am, 2.30pm & 3.30pm

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SINGAPORE

The CINEMATHEQUE of the National Museum of Singapore
January - May 2010

The National Museum of Singapore Cinématéque focuses on the presentation of film in its historical, aesthetic, and cultural contexts, with a strong emphasis on local and regional cinema. Key programmes include the annual Singapore Short Cuts, Young Cinema, Film an Music series, Alternative Visions and Under the Banyan Tree: Open Air Cinema.

FELLINI! - A complete Retrospective.

16 April - 9 May 2010

Co-presented with the Italian Cultural Institute of Singapore. With the support of Cinecittá Holding
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GENERAL ENQUIRIES: (65) 6332-5642
(65) 6348-5555
http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/

TREASURY OF THE WORLD

Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals

Showing fot the first time in Asia at the Asia Civilisations Museum, Treasury of the World features over 400 exquisite piedes of Mughal jewellery from the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait.

This collection, assembled over the last four decades by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah and Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah of Kuwait, is one of the world's greatest collection of Islamic art today.

The exhibition is in Singapore in the Asian Civilisations Museum: 12 February - 27 June 2010.

YO EL SUPREMO y el anti-mito del Dictador Francia

PRÓXIMA PUBLICACIÓN

AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS: Yo el Supremo y el anti-mito del Dictador Francia de la autora Claudia González.

Según la autora: En Yo el Supremo existen una multidiscursividad, intertextualidad eintratextualidad que contribuyen a la mecánica de la desmitificación y deconstrucción de las bases del pensamiento totalitario, entiéndase éste como historia, género o mito. En esta novela, los «contratextos» con los que dialoga el texto del Supremo desmitifican, relativizan y desautorizan progresivamente lo histórico, volviendo sospechosa tanto la escritura del hecho histórico como la de los avatares de sus protagonistas. La constitución ficticia del personaje del Supremo se desliza hacia su negación como mito histórico. El mito del Dr. Francia es un significante vacío, un mito performativo, un efecto de prácticas discursivas.

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CLAUDIA GONZALEZ ha publicado Hijo de hombre y la reconstrucción cultural del Paraguay (Litocolor, 1998), Jugando con mamá (Criterio Ediciones, 2002), Cuentos breves del olvido (narrativa breve, Servilibro, 2005), Launiversidad innovadora: hacia una interpretación del
caso Paraguay (Servilibro, 2005, en coautoría con Antonio Villegas), Elegía a Luciana y otros cuentos (narrativa breve, Servilibro, 2006), Apuntes del alma (fotografía y poesía, arte-vida, 2006, en coautoría con Antonio Villegas), Federica en el mar (narrativa juvenil, Nido de Cuervos, 2007), Federica en la sierra (narrativa juvenil, Nido de Cuervos, 2007), El valle de las mariposas (narrativa infantil, Planeta, 2008), Una noche… (poesía, arte-vida 2009), y Futbolmanía, cuento escrito en coautoría con Valentina Verruso,
para la Antología EMPATAMOS (Editorial Terracota, México, 2009).

VICIONARIO

¡VICIONARIO A LA VISTA!

El próximo número de Vicionario, el cuarto de este año, está a punto de salir. No se lo pierdan.

VICIONARIO es una revista de literatura y arte ba

sada en el vicio de la palabra y el vicio de la belleza, editada por el Centro Cultural de San Marcos y dirigida por el poeta Arturo Corcuera, Director de la Biblioteca España de las Artes que funciona en la Casona clásica.

Portada de la Revista Nro.2

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Corcuera

MORE MEXICO IN SINGAPORE

Camino a la Modernidad

The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Painting

Venue: Singapore Art Museum (71 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189555. Tel: 63323222)
Date: 15 November 2009 to 3 January 2010

Camino a la Modernidad, The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Painting traces major developments in Mexican art from the 1900s to the 1950s, where Mexican society underwent tremendous changes in social and political spheres that impacted much of its artistic expression.

The Mexican Revolution (1910) laid the foundation for a new artistic movement, Mexican Mural Renaissance, which attempted to bridge the class divide in the construction of a national identity and aesthetic, through bringing art to the masses in the form of highly accessible, outdoor public art murals. The exhibition features over 70 works from important Mexican public and private collections, including works by renowned mural artists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, Roberto Montenegro, Rufino Tamayo, Maria Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Medallion, 1948,Oil/Masonite, 50 cm x 40 cm, Private Collection

CHINGAY PARADE 2010 IN SINGAPORE

SURPRISING PARADE IN SINGAPORE.

BE PREPARED FOR THE NEXT YEAR: 2011

The Chingay FESTIVAL Parade 2010 in Singapore was amazing.

The effort of the local communities and their cultural representatives in Singapore have given a magnificent example of the multiculturality in this country.