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A YEAR after this reviewer dismissed the annual United Overseas Bank (UOB) Painting of the Year award as a tad too safe, the interesting choice of art teacher Namiko Chan Takahashi’s nude painting of a woman entitled Charisse was an- nounced on Saturday. In claiming the top prize of a trophy and $20,000 from guest of honour Pres- ident S R Nathan in the competition’s 25th year, Takahashi, 32, triumphed over a record slate of 1,380 entrants. However, when asked whether the selection of a nude could be seen as controversial, chief judge Kwok Kian Chow, director of the Singapore Art Mu- seum, responded with a laugh: “Is it?” On a more serious note, he added: “The nudity was never talked about. It’s a powerful work through which the per- sonality is seen, about the plight of wom- anhood. All the judges agreed on this one. It was an easy decision.” The improvement in the quality of entries from last year to this year was so dramatic that the issue was even ad- dressed by the chief judge in his open- ing speech. This year’s competition saw a strong showing by Singaporean artists, with nearly half of the entries in the Ju- nior (aged 6 to 12) and Youth (aged 13 to 18) sections. “The fact that 50 per cent of the entries come from those sections says a lot about the interest in art here,” said Dr James McCalman, judging mem- ber and Sotheby’s Institute of Art man- aging director. “The quality level, es- pecially in the abstract art and youth categories, is really, really high.” It remains to be seen, he added, how the artistic potential seen in young people is nurtured. As for art teacher Takahashi, she looks to be taking a break from nurtur- ing a passion for art in the young in favour of nurturing her own art. She plans to leave the teaching pro- fession to become a full-time artist. — DAVID CHEW The quality level, espe- cially in the abstract art and youth categories, is really, really high. – Dr James McCalman, judge, on the entries in this year’s contest Decision to award painting about women’s plight was an easy one, says chief judge Nude wins UOB prize DON WONG TEACHER TO TURN ARTIST: Winner Namiko Chan Takahashi.
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THIS may be the third stagingof the Singapore Repertory The-atre’s best-known production of
the past four years, but thebrains behind Forbidden Cityhave some work to do if this ismeant to be a dry run before themusical is taken abroad.
Forbidden City recounts thelife of China’s Empress Dowa-ger Cixi (Kit Chan plays theyoung empress, Sheila Francis-co the older one) through theeyes of a sympathetic Ameri-can portrait painter (Leigh Mc-Donald) who wants to get at thetrue story behind the reclusiveand misunderstood dragon lady.
Recounting the tumultuousperiod of the empress’ late 19thcentury reign, the musical doessucceed in creating a suitablyexotic atmosphere through itsuse of lights, sound and set de-sign.
The overall quality of thesinging during Saturday after-noon’s matinee performancewas also encouraging, even ifKit’s voice faltered at times.
Where the musical fallsshort is in its ability to get theaudience involved in the story.
Trying to cover too muchof the history in a three-hourmusical (with intermission) onlymakes the production seemrushed, the storytelling seemlinear and predictable and thecharacters come across as flatand underdeveloped.
Sadly, it’s hard to summonmuch of a response to Kit Chan’sshow-stopping number WhyDream of Love when everythingthat came before seems to haverushed right past.
Judging from past reviews ofthe musical, the core of the pro-duction remains unchanged andis thus open to the same sortsof criticism.
The difference is that, thistime, the musical is being pre-pared to tour the world, makingit more important than ever tore-evaluate the script.
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Students beat teachers in Sudoku contestJJUULLIIAANNAA JJUUNNEE [email protected]
IN THE end, it was the students who beatthe maths teachers.
Three students from National JuniorCollege (NJC) were the fastest of the fourteams in Saturday’s Sudoku Super-ChallengeGrand Final, organised by the People’s As-sociation and held at The Concourse.
They took home the top prize of $1,000cash and Swarovski-studded handheld Su-doku games for solving six Sudoku puzzlescorrectly in the shortest time possible intheir respective categories.
They beat two JC-level mathematicsteachers who joined the general public cat-egory, solving their puzzles within 48 min-utes. The teachers took five minutes longer.
When asked about their win, the NJCteam said it was totally unexpected.
“We faced some tough competition fromthe Hwa Chong team, so we didn’t thinkwe’d win,” said 16-year-old Sophia Ng. Sheand teammates Alan Chee, 17, and Li Chun,15, found the puzzles “acceptable”, whilemaths teacher Jonathan Seow, 27, who tookhome first prize with his team in the generalpublic category, called them “difficult”.
Sixty teams competed in the finals,culled from 150 teams who had participat-ed in preliminary rounds in July.
Said Thomas Teo, a member of theMathematical Society, who marked the puz-zles: “The great thing about Sudoku is thatanybody can do it, because there are dif-ferent levels of difficulty.”
Sudoku PLUS puzzles have been a dailyfeature of this newspaper since TODAY in-troduced the puzzle in Singapore in Octoberlast year.
A YEAR after this reviewer dismissed theannual United Overseas Bank (UOB)Painting of the Year award as a tad toosafe, the interesting choice of art teacherNamiko Chan Takahashi’s nude paintingof a woman entitled Charisse was an-nounced on Saturday.
In claiming the top prize of a trophyand $20,000 from guest of honour Pres-ident S R Nathan in the competition’s25th year, Takahashi, 32, triumphedover a record slate of 1,380 entrants.
However, when asked whether theselection of a nude could be seen ascontroversial, chief judge Kwok KianChow, director of the Singapore Art Mu-seum, responded with a laugh: “Is it?”
On a more serious note, he added:“The nudity was never talked about. It’sa powerful work through which the per-
sonality is seen, about the plight of wom-anhood. All the judges agreed on thisone. It was an easy decision.”
The improvement in the quality ofentries from last year to this year wasso dramatic that the issue was even ad-dressed by the chief judge in his open-ing speech. This year’s competition sawa strong showing by Singaporean artists,with nearly half of the entries in the Ju-
nior (aged 6 to 12) and Youth (aged 13to 18) sections.
“The fact that 50 per cent of theentries come from those sections saysa lot about the interest in art here,”said Dr James McCalman, judging mem-ber and Sotheby’s Institute of Art man-aging director. “The quality level, es-pecially in the abstract art and youthcategories, is really, really high.”
It remains to be seen, he added,how the artistic potential seen in youngpeople is nurtured.
As for art teacher Takahashi, shelooks to be taking a break from nurtur-ing a passion for art in the young infavour of nurturing her own art.
She plans to leave the teaching pro-fession to become a full-time artist.—— DDAAVVIIDD CCHHEEWW
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Show needs to engage audience if it’s to make grand debut abroad
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Decision to award painting about women’s plight was an easy one, says chief judge
Nude wins UOB prize
DON WONG
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