Originally posted by denizenx
where's bilbao museum and fed sq? orchard road? tampines? marina sq?
we are trying to start something high brow locally... admitted it's not very well planned. we want a world class place to promote high art. while the govt can spend 1 gazillion dollars and absorbing existent content/talent whatever, it cannot spearhead the art scene itself. Hence a nice Gucci suit in the hope that ah beng san will behave more gentlemanly.
But I believe your complaints stem only from not being allowed to take photographs.
I'm not sure but has anyone written in for an official tour + restricted photography/posters/postcards? AdamGoi? ;p
The Guggeheim Museum of Bilbao is in Spain. Federation Square is in Melbourne. Both cities which I dare to say have achieved higher standards in terms of arts than Singapore.
High brow? High art? That's a highly snobbish remark from somebody that has totally missed the point of having an arts facility here. You've got to understand that no amount of money spent on hardware is going to make Singapore more "artistic". Not even 600 million. I don't think the late Mr. Ong Teng Cheong had that in mind too when he proposed the project.
What makes you think that good art form has to be performed in good acoustically prepared durians? Why can't a street performer be considered an artist? The combined seating capacity of the 2 durians is less than 4000. Do you think the Esplanade can survive on that? Don't be naive.
How do you promote art? You don't build a monstrous building with the latest of eveything hoping that everything will get better. It will not. Promoting arts is about popularising art itself to the masses, irregardless of where, how and what, tuxedo or not. Of course, I'm not disputing the need for dress code for various events again.
What you see is as always, the surface of things. You don't look deep enough to see the reasoning as to why thing happen and in this case, do not happen. Of course, I'm looking this point as a photographer because I think by disallowing photos taken at a venue designed to promote arts is ironic and ridiculous and ironic. I also see this as an architectural student and question what the building is really about. Is it for the elite few? Then its doomed to fail. Like it or not.