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Salvador Dali in Singapore

The closest thing Southeast Asia could get to Dali in all his mad genius is now showing in Singapore’s newest cultural showcase, the ArtScience Museum, at the Marina Bay Sands.

The latter has been heralded by Singapore tourism authorities as “the leading business, leisure and entertainment destination of Asia.”

It has convention and exhibition facilities; three hotel towers with over 2,500 rooms and suites, the towers connected on the rooftop by the surfboard-life SkyPark, which has several smashing bars and perhaps the world’s longest infinity pool; a huge shopping mall that’s touted by the city-state’s press handlers as “the best mall in Asia”; two theaters (one of them showing Disney’s Broadway hit “Lion King”); a huge casino; and an outdoor events plaza where a multimedia hydraulics-holograph show is staged every night.

But the centerpiece of the complex is the ArtScience Museum. Designed by the Israeli-North American architect Moshe Safdie, its shape has been either ascribed to the lotus flower or, to Sheldon Adelson of Las Vegas Sands Corp., to “The Welcoming Hand of Singapore.” But of course, it’s more of the former, as more than adumbrated by the 4,000 sq m lily-pond reflecting pool.

Nevertheless, the extensions that give the structure its unique look are described in the information brochure not as petals but as “fingers”: a total of “10 fingers” and two bay windows make up the building; the tallest finger stands 60 meters. Inside, the fingers form striking gallery spaces with natural lighting from the fingertips illuminating the interiors.

ArtScience Museum seeks to demonstrate how creative minds combine science and art to make objects that transform the world, according to Damien Sim, communication officer of the Sands.

A permanent exhibition takes visitors on a journey of the creative process under three headings: “Curiosity,” “Inspiration” and “Expression.” On exhibit are instances of Asian and Western innovations in the arts and sciences across the centuries that chart man’s progress.

Welcoming hand

Set on the backdrop of the omnibus, omnivorous complex that combines business, pleasure, high-stake games of chance, and hybrid (or mutative) lifestyles, ArtScience Museum sticks out not exactly like a sore thumb (again, the hand metaphor), but as a respite, relief, and blessing (once again, the hand!).

If one feels a bit queasy and even guilty about the sybaritic ambience of the Sands with all that shopping, gaming and cashing in, then ArtScience may salve a bit the guilt: It provides refuge and sanctuary. It may, in fact, be the perfect getaway—a confessional box in the form of a ritual blessing (the hand, the hand!), or of a lotus flower, which remains pure and innocent amid all the grubby ugliness of sewers and creeks (that’s from the Oriental point of view), or, at the least, provides the potion for forgetfulness and escapism (like the Lotus Eaters of Homer’s “Odyssey”).

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