Frida Kahlo and live macaws: National Gallery show Tropical links Latin America with South-east Asia

Tropical: Stories From Southeast Asia And Latin America at the National Gallery Singapore. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH
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SINGAPORE – What connects the art of distant Latin America with that of South-east Asia? Quite a lot, according to the National Gallery Singapore’s blockbuster exhibition, Tropical: Stories From Southeast Asia And Latin America.

Nine years in the making, this show that rewards multiple visits is the world’s first large-scale effort to put seminal works from the two diverse regions in dialogue.

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