B4 THE WEEK Sunday 11 August 2013 Shanghai Daily

HONG KONG Photo contest for Animals Asia

HONG Kong-based Animals Asia Foundation announced that it will start its annual photo contest this month to celebrate this year’s World Animal Day that falls on October 4. With the theme “Sharing love with them,” the one-month event aims to share the lovable relation- ship between humans and furry friends, to raise people’s aware- ness of strays, promote the idea of not eating companion animals, and pass along thoughts of how to become a responsible owner. People from around the world are invited to upload the original photos of animals. This year’s photo contest has the award categories “We are family,” “The most touching eyes,” and “Stray angels.” Photos must be submit- ted at the end of August. Award winners will be announced on September 26. Karen Mok, the famous Hong Kong actress and singer, who is keen to promote the benefits and TORONTO welfare of animals, is the spokes- person of Animal Asia as well as David Bowie exhibit at Ontario gallery next the face of a series of events dur- ing World Animal Day. She said, THE next stop of an exhibition on musician’s five-decade career. “I believe that many people like the career of singer David Bowie It includes more than 300 items, to record their memories with will be the Art Gallery of Ontario in including handwritten lyrics, origi- their pets with cameras, and I am Toronto. nal costumes, album artwork, set really looking forward to enjoy- “David Bowie is” is at London’s designs and performance materials. ing all the touching stories. Let’s V&A Museum until today. The V&A After Toronto, the exhibition will work together to show our love Museum curated the exhibit and move to the Museum of Image and and care to our animal friends.” says it has been staying open until Sound in São Paulo before coming to There will be awards for win- 10pm to meet demand. Attendance Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary ners, whose works will join a has been about 300,000. Art in US from September 2014 to nationwide exhibition. This exhibition is the first in- January 2015. Later exhibitions will ternational retrospective of the be in Paris and the Netherlands.

SINGAPORE Giant flowers part of Croatian’s dream

A MAGNIFICENT 15-foot fiberglass the power and beauty of flowers can amethyst flower bloomed outside the connect different nations. ArtScience Museum on Marine Bay “I want these striking and vibrant Sands in Singapore on Tuesday. sculptures to attract people and LONDON Titled “Love,” the sculpture is one encourage them to tell their stories of the 15 art installations of the “Love and share their experiences. My dream Dylan portraits & Peace” collection by Croatian artist is for my flowers to act as beacons and Ana Tzarev. All 15 feet in size, these rallying points across the planet — going on display flowers are hailed as the world’s larg- bringing people together on a global est collection of art installation. scale,” said Tzarev. The art is inspired by a childhood The flowers have traveled many PORTRAITS by Bob Dylan are habit of the 76-year-old artist, a child places across the world, including going on display at the National of war in Croatia, of picking flowers London, Venice, New York, Prague Portrait Gallery in London. from the graves surrounding her and and Rome. The next appearance is in The 72-year-old singer-song- planting them at home. She believed Beijing in January. writer has been exhibiting his artwork for six years, but these 12 new pastel sketches have not been shown. The display is a departure for the gallery, which showcases portraits of prominent Britons. PITTSBURGH The gallery says Dylan’s images are “an amalgamation of features Live video from Warhol gravesite for birthday the musician has collected from life, memory and his imagination THE Andy Warhol Museum is launch- because of a Warhol quote in which and fashioned into people, some ing a live video feed from the pop the artist said, “I always thought I’d real and some fictitious.” artist’s gravesite to honor his 85th like my own tombstone to be blank. No Art historian John Elderfield, birthday. epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I’d who helped bring the works to The project, a partnership with the like it to say, ‘Figment’.” London, this week called the EarthCam webcam network, was going The suburban Pittsburgh gravestone paintings “products of the same live Monday at midnight, the museum has Warhol’s original surname, Warho- extraordinary, inventive imagi- said. la, the dates of his birth and death and nation” that produced Dylan’s Warhol museum Director Eric Shiner a cross. Warhol’s 85th birthday would songs. “Bob Dylan: Face Value” said the project is titled “Figment” have been Tuesday. He died in 1987. runs August 24 to January 5.