All the artworks displayed on the balcony railings have been removed. They are now being exhibited at new gallery spaces at the ARTisFair event in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: The Star/Muhamad Shahril Rosli
The inaugural ARTisFAIR event hit a bump a day after its opening at the Fahrenheit88 mall in Kuala Lumpur.
The affordable art fair, co-created by fashion designer Datuk Seri Bernard Chandran and BookXcess co-founder Andrew Yap, scheduled to run until Nov 28, was at the centre of a social media storm today with art lovers and local artists objecting to the way some of the exhibits where hung on the shopping mall balcony railings.
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