Art not Penang enough Artist: Public art should express the state’s multi-racial heritage

Brief caption: Mural at Nagore Road, Penang. November 19, 2014. Gary Chen/The Star.

THE 14 new murals being drawn within inner George Town — some depicting apes, men with Afro hairstyles, Japanese and European caricatures and surrealistic iPhones — have not received the endorsement from the Penang Public Arts Review Panel (PARP).

Its chairman Lim Chooi Ping said the panel was still reviewing and had not endorsed the mural proposals of the 15 Malaysian and foreign artists gathered under Urban Xchange, the first international street art festival in Malaysia.