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                    [Title] => Singapore Arts Festival: The end of the world in Lion City
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I am in Singapore and it’s right about the end of the world.

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He just stands there, minutes trawling by. A white unmoving thing, er, figure as Bach’s Toccata & Fugue ruptures in the background. “Dracula!” the guy behind me whispers.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133531 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804862 [AuthorName] => Igan D’Bayan [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/6478/lif1thumbu.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 345248 [Title] => A season of a thousand faces in the global city for the arts [Summary] => I saw this quote by artist Hartwig Ebersbach at the Singapore National Museum: "There is no future without memory, maybe no fire either." No future also without creativity. Maybe there would still be, although in a Blade Runner or Brazil sense I suppose. But who wants to live in a future of dead and dreary concrete cityscapes inhabited by a blank generation, and where art is dead and emptiness is forever? Not you. Definitely not me.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133531 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804862 [AuthorName] => Igan D’Bayan [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 282706 [Title] => A season of musts in ‘Renaissance City’ [Summary] => Imagine going to the Lion City and then meeting buskers, voodoo witches, post-apocalypse ballerinas, ancient acrobats, odd goddesses, giant puppets (who look like William S. Burroughs, "the hit-man for the apocalypse," according to J.G. Ballard), tiny dancers, jugglers, and street musicians, among other interesting creatures. You’d think for a second that you’ve been recruited to the quirky cosmos of Haruki Murakami with his posse of sheep-men, sputnik lovers and insomniacs. [DatePublished] => 2005-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133531 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804862 [AuthorName] => Igan D’Bayan [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Singapore Arts Festival: The end of the world in Lion City
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I am in Singapore and it’s right about the end of the world.

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He just stands there, minutes trawling by. A white unmoving thing, er, figure as Bach’s Toccata & Fugue ruptures in the background. “Dracula!” the guy behind me whispers.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133531 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804862 [AuthorName] => Igan D’Bayan [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/6478/lif1thumbu.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 345248 [Title] => A season of a thousand faces in the global city for the arts [Summary] => I saw this quote by artist Hartwig Ebersbach at the Singapore National Museum: "There is no future without memory, maybe no fire either." No future also without creativity. Maybe there would still be, although in a Blade Runner or Brazil sense I suppose. But who wants to live in a future of dead and dreary concrete cityscapes inhabited by a blank generation, and where art is dead and emptiness is forever? Not you. Definitely not me.
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