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The City Palace and the Monsoon Palace
The City Palace, from Lake Pichola. To the far right is the Shiv Niwas Palace and in the middle of the photo, with the trio of turrets, is the Fateh Prakash Palace. Both Palaces are heritage hotels...
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The Lake Palace, Udaipur
The Lake Palace, viewed from the Fatehprakash Palace (part of the City Palace complex). The Taj Lake Palace is known for being the “most romantic hotel in the world”. I can’t possibly agree more. It...
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THE FACTS OF LIFE – 1. MAGIC
A quiet alleyway in Venice… Music, lyrics and arrangement by Kennie Ting. Photography by Joe Zandstra, with artwork design by Kennie Ting....
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RAFFLES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA – REVISITING THE SCHOLAR AND STATESMAN
Guerrilla marketing campaign for the exhibition. #acmsg #UnderstandEverything Today, Asian Civilisations Museum’s first special exhibition of the year – RAFFLES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: REVISITING THE...
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The Grand Tour III:14 – Jodhpur… Blue City
View of the Blue City (otherwise known as the Old City of Jodhpur), from Mehrangarh Fort. Jodhpur is the penultimate city on my Grand Tour of the Port and Princely Cities of the Subcontinent. It is the...
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Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur
Mehrangarh Fort, perched 400 feet above old Jodhpur. Perched 400 feet above the old city of Jodhpur, Mehrangarh Fort is unmissable; a seemingly indomitable fortress-palace that strikes awe in all who...
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Old Jodhpur
The old city… The old city of Jodhpur makes for a delightful afternoon stroll. It’s much less congested than that of Jaipur, and man of the facades in the city are painted in my favorite colour of all...
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Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur
Umaid Bhawan Palace, viewed form the extensive lawns. Nothing prepares the Grand Tourist for his or her arrival at the Umaid Bhawan Palace. It is quite simply the most fairytale of fairytale palaces,...
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SEASON OF CHINESE ART: Guo Pei – Chinese Art & Couture, June 2019
Asian Civilisations Museum’s 5 Mar 2019 Media Conference with Guo Pei, on ACM’s SEASON OF CHINESE ART 中华风 2019/2020，and the upcoming exibition GUO PEI – CHINESE ART AND COUTURE 《郭培：中国艺术与高级定制服装》 Last...
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THE FACTS OF LIFE – 3. 两个人
Gondola… Lagoon… Venice… Written, composed and arranged by Kennie Ting. 词/曲/编曲: 陈威仁. Photography and artwork design by Kennie Ting....
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The Grand Tour III:15 – Lahore (Pakistan) …Second Paradise
The Alamgiri Gate is one of the main gates to the Lahore Fort. It was built by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1674, and faces the Badshahi Mosque, which Aurangzeb also built. And so here we are at Lahore,...
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The Lahore Fort and Badshahi Masjid
The Badshahi Mosque, built during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb and completed in 1673, was the largest mosque in the world until 1986. The Lahore Fort, also known as the Shahi Qila, or Royal Fort,...
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Mughal Tombs and Paradise Gardens, Lahore
The Mausoleum of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, completed in 1637. In the suburb of Shahdara (The Way of the Shahs), some 16 km from Lahore, stand the tombs of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, and his...
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The Walled City, Lahore
The Wazir Khan Mosque was commissioned by the Emperor Shah Jahan and it is quite simply the most beautiful mosque I’ve ever seen. The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the Old City, has been...
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Colonial Lahore – Mall Road
The GPO (General Post Office) was built in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. The British ruled Lahore for just under a hundred years from 1849 to 1947. Capitalising on a crisis of...
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Faletti’s Hotel, Lahore
The facade of Faletti’s Hotel today. Faletti’s Hotel is one of the oldest hotels on this Grand Tour; one that has remained more or less in its original form, and with its original name since its...
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THE FACTS OF LIFE – 4. MORNING
Kennie in bed, Venice… Music, lyrics, musical arrangement and vocal arrangement by Kennie Ting. Photography by Joe Zandstra. Artwork design by Kennie Ting....
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The Grand Tour III – Epilogue, and Journey’s End
The Victoria Memorial in Calcutta completed in 1921, was designed and built to echo the Taj Mahal in Agra. So this is it. Two and a half years later, I’m finally here posting my Epilogue to THE GRAND...
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Cape of Good Hope, or Reflecting on What Comes Next
Sunset in Cape Town. In April I travelled to Cape Town to spend some time with friends and family. That trip would turn out to be the first real vacation since I took on my job as the Director of the...
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The Difference between Happiness, Fulfillment & Pleasure (or the Trials of...
View from a friend’s home in London, where I was briefly staying at recently. A couple of days ago a colleague of mine asked me what had been the happiest day of my life since becoming a Museum...
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