These people used to be located in front of SAM, the Singapore Art Museum. Unfortunately this was just in front of Bras Basah Road, and they were spewed with enough exhaust and soot to become unpleasingly filthy. Now they’ve been cleaned up and moved to the lawn adjacent to the National Museum of Singapore. Worth […]
This is a 1992 work entitled “Tree of Education,” located oddly enough at the National Institue of Education, NIE: No, that’s not your imagination: the Tree of Education really does have a crown that can fit into a box, like a refrigerator. Truncated and controlled, not to say stifled and inadequate. Actually, this does seem […]
This was unveiled by the head of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It’s at NIE, the National Institute for Education, and it demarcates the part of the building dedicated to training PE teachers.
OK, you guess what this thing is: I climbed the hill and tried to read the little sign at its base, but it was a very weathered, chipped slab of marble, illegible except for a few initials in the upper left corner that read ….TU. It’s in a prominent spot where all the buses and […]
This thing benefited from a new coat of paint last month. Although no longer rusty, it’s still not very pleasing: It’s a dead failure as a torch of knowledge – the relation of flame to support is wholly out of whack. On the other hand, as a representation of the flames of the nearby Jurong […]
Here are some interesting, if not beautiful, sculptures at the entrance to a gated condo development on Sixth Avenue (across from the ever-to-be-praised bakery, Simply Bread). First, the gatehouse itself, with rusty frogs admiring the palm and gecko-frieze above them. Gate posts to either side as you enter flank you with a gecko-related bas-relief: And […]
This one is also at ION shopping center, around the corner from the Giant Nutmeg: The people on the left are happily having their pictures taken in front of it. Why?
There are a lot of sculptures in Singapore’s public areas, and I thought I’d post pictures of them. Let’s start with the newest in the fruit series, the Giant Nutmeg outside the new ION shopping center. It’s pretty accurate: stem, nutmeg, coating of mace, and outer fruit, which you can buy in pickled form in […]