Front Row

The Shalini Ganendra Fine Art Vision Culture Program is a non-profit knowledge building program, that hopes to develop awareness of Malaysian arts with international curators and artists. Set to speak tonight is art historian and Adjunct Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Sandhini Poddar, who will be discussing the topic of curating Asian art to the world. She joins us to share more.

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The group Art Friends, in collaboration with Mercy Malaysia and Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers are organising a charity auction to collect funds for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines on 5th December 2013. Themed 'Art Friends for Haiyan Charity Art Auction' the auction will present about 40 works of art from 28 well known artists in he country. Here to tell us more is Datuk Rosaline Ganendra, the Director of Minoconsult Sdn Bhd and a representative of The Malaysian Art Friends. 

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One is known as the Godfather of Malaysian comedy, and the other is part of the MACC...

Funnymen Harith Iskander and Kuah Jenhan give us a teaser of what's in store for comedy show Lawak Ke Der 3, which has come a long way from YouTube to Istana Budaya.

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Challenging the idea of collaboration, the cross disciplinary contemporary dance performance, Intertwined, sees several local talents coming together to create a performing art piece that interacts between different arts disciplines, with each artist interpreting the word "intertwined' through their own artistic language. Explaining further are composer Ng Chor Guan and producer E-Jan.

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Singer Melissa Indot released her long-awaited second album MDot in October, and she joins us to discuss both the new sound she has adopted for this album and also to plug what we can expect from her upcoming performance at Alexis. 

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is English schoolmaster Edwin Abbot's satirical spin on his era's social, moral and religious conventions. This story is set to make the move from page to stage in a dance adaptation by Terry and The Cuz and daner Suhaili Micheline, and we find out all about it from Director, The Cuz and Costume Designer, Mel Page. 

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Fresh from their performance at Urbanscapes, Ali Johan catches up with the captivating ladies of Black Voices to discuss their style of performance, which follows black oral tradition – an early music form that is based on the ancient folklores and story-telling of Africa and the Diaspora and which has impacted on the development of classical and more recent music genres such as blues and jazz.

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Renowned Malaysian visual artist Lim Kim Hai has been making waves around the world with his works, and is noted for his distinct artistic language in representing apples. An award-winning painter, his works from the period of 2008-2013 are now being exhibited at 69 Fine Art Gallery, and I find out all about it from artist Kim Hai himself, together with gallery owner Patrice Vallette.

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The Young Guns is HOM Art Trans' latest award, which has been created to give recognition to young artists at the top of their game. Set to be held tri-anually, this first installment, titled Nyala, features works by 13 young talents under the age of 33. Here to discuss the mechanics of this new visual arts award system are renowned visual artist Bayu Utomo Radjikin, who is Director of HOM Art Trans, together with a Young Gun, visual artist Zelin Seah.

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Anson Wong is one of the world’s most infamous wildlife traffickers, convicted twice of smuggling exotic wildlife across international borders. Working with anti-trafficking groups, Al Jazeera's 101 East went undercover to expose Anson Wong’s Malaysian-based operation – and the officials who allow it. Steve Chao joined us to discuss this undercover investigation.

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