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The Straits Times More than 100 ink works by pioneer artist Cheong Soo Pieng are on show at Artspace@Helutrans Artcommune gallery founder Ho Sou Ping and curator Tan Yong Jun at the exhibition Tonalities: The Ink Works Of Cheong Soo Pieng (above), which features the artists works from the early 1950s to 1983, the year he died.ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO Artcommune gallery founder Ho Sou Ping (right) and curator Tan Yong Jun (left) at the exhibition Tonalities: The Ink Works Of Cheong Soo Pieng, which f...

This talk will introduce three movies made between 1959-1961 by MP&GI (Motion Picture & General Investment) Ltd., a subsidiary of Singapore’s Cathay Organization founded in 1956 by Loke Wan Tho. A competitor of the larger and now better known Shaw Brothers, MP&GI made most of its movies in Mandarin rather than Cantonese, and its films were popular with audiences throughout Southeast Asia as well as in Hong Kong and Taiwan. During its peak years of 1957 to 1964, MP&GI offered viewers a broad r...