Private treasures: Art collector group lines up amazing discoveries


An art enthusiast ponders the heavy issues in Bayu Utomo Radjikin’s work Does History Change?, which is on show at the National Visual Arts Gallery.

Malaysian Art Friends lines up amazing discoveries at National Visual Arts Gallery exhibition.

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Former US president Ronald Reagan’s appeal to then Soviet Union leader Mikhael Gorbachev to demolish the Berlin Wall in 1987 rings true also of a fairly recent phenomenon of major Malaysian private collectors who have allowed part of their largesse of art collected to be publicly shared.

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