Radio Malaya: Abridged Conversations About Art follows an earlier project Between Here and Nanyang: Marco Hsu’s Brief History of Malayan Art (2013 – 2016) and continues to proceed with ways in which the University’s permanent collection may be read in relation to writings on art and cultural history. It examines lines of inquiries that are predicated by various practices, institution-making, scholarship and nation.
As a backdrop to the evolving discussion on Malayan culture which Hsu was part of, the exhibition introduces selected writings by T.K. Sabapathy and S. Rajaratnam, the former pertains to Southeast Asian art historiography, and the latter as a call for a cultural history that forms part of a shaping of community and nation. These frames provide ways to consider the Museum’s collection whose collecting histories may be associated with Malaya’s period of formation, and the evolving project of art history.
Image credit: Detail from view of Pan Pacific Hotel from corner of Supreme Court, circa. late 1980s.
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13 Dec 2018
Diary of an NUS Museum Intern: Roy Ng
Roy Ng is a final-year NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students, majoring in History and minoring in Art History. As part of his internship, he served as Research Assistant to Dr Priya Maholay-Jaradi, whom the Museum is collaborating with for a forthcoming 2019 programme.
27 Feb 2020
What takes place at our Module Collaborations at the Museum?
Many of our academic colleagues have leveraged the exhibits at both the NUS Museum and Baba House to augment their curriculum; this is the basis of a ‘module collaboration’. Many, professors and students alike, testify to how this has added an interesting facet to their module. To enquire about creating a module collaboration for your classroom, please do contact the NUS Museum team.
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