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Issue 17
Affectionately known by some as the ‘Big Fat Bird’, artist Fernando Botero’s chubby Bird (1990) at Boat Quay is one special chick. Designed with a tasteful exit-hole in its derrière, this stout brass sculpture has a musical secret. Blowing into its ‘mouth-piece’ resonates inside the hollow birdie and produces a high-pitched whistle. Get a friend to prop you up and experience bird-calling of a different kind.
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Around Town this week
- Rainforest Fights Back
- Junk to Jewels: The Things that Peranakans Value
- World Food Fair 2008
- MAAD Market of Artists and Designers
- A Rats Tale
- Dinosaur Descendants - Flightless Birds Exhibit
- Be a Falconer
- Seeing Red: Propaganda and Material Culture in China (1966-1976)
- Dragons, Treasures and Masterpieces
- Orangutan Exhibit
- Early Bird Breakfast Show
- GEMS (Gender Equality Men of Singapore)
- Journey Through the Land of Lotus
- Secrets of the Red Lantern
- Container Gardening













