After afternoon tea, where we rejected all the cakes and ate cautious white bread sandwich fingers (no discernible chilli) Grette and managed to resist the enticing prospects of checking out Tiffany, Boss, Marks and Spencer's et al (we had bought shirts and bags from Jim Thompson at another exclusive shopping centre earlier in the day) in order to visit the contemporary art space run by the national oil company Petronas.
Some great works from new academic designers and artists, backed up by quite a few weighty arguments by university leaders and the gallery patron arguing variously that art is or should be a research discipline of facts and ideas, and that it has a socio-political responsibility to recast the ideas our life together. Throw into the mix the range of art explorations, often modern and innovative but linked to traditional life or culture, which appears to be strong at the toppish end of tourism... and the potential and value of art as the real forum for intercultural connection - inside and between countries - looks really obvious.
A world wide chilli arts festival,live and on the internet,perhaps.
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