Dawn Ng, Walter, 2010. PVC float. SAM Collection, Courtesy of Singapore Art Museum © the artist Think of an art museum and children would probably be the last patrons to come to mind. Incorporating technology and...

SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL 2012

2012.6.28　 Text: Fann ZJ

The offcial word is out. The Singapore Arts Festival is taking a break next year. In 2013, the annual event, which started in 1977 to celebrate the local arts scene in a multi-cultural Singapore, will take a year’s ha...

VERTICAL CITIES ASIA

2012.2.22　 Text: Fann ZJ

With globalisation and climate change, the balance between climatic, economic and social sustainability in the pursuit of growth and enhanced quality of life is especially fragile in emerging Asia, the hot spot of gro...

SQUARES INVASION PAINTING SHOW 2011

2011.10.29　 Text: Fann ZJ

In the age of multi-media, computer graphics, apps and iPads, the medium of painting is not losing its popularity or its edge. Just as how print and photography as art forms have come along and developed to influence ...

ABBAS, 45 YEARS IN PHOTOGRAPHY

2011.9.14　 Text: Rachel Alexis Xu

ABBAS, 45 Years In Photography greeted its exhibition-goers with a note from the artist himself – who in good humour jests that most retrospection is done when an author is no longer around. Morbid jokes aside, this m...

I HAVE A ROOM WITH EVERYTHING

2011.7.26　 Text: Alicia Tan

Do not judge a book by its cover, our parents tell us. But in the world of visual art and print, the exterior is just as important in catching one’s eye, as the interior. Curated by Yanda from the design bl...

AN ODE TO PENGUIN

2011.7.12　 Text: Alicia Tan

"We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it." — Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books. Pop, hope and trot your way down soo...

CAPITAL

2011.6.20　 Text: Rachel Alexis Xu

“Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlastin...

SATURDAY IN DESIGN SINGAPORE

2011.6.7　 Text: Fann ZJ

The Singapore design community had a field day as both local and international designers and brands relished in a day of design celebration, friendship and education with the inaugural Saturday in Design Singapore. O...

SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2011

2011.3.22　 Text: Fann ZJ

It is with a sense of hospitality and maturity, that the 3rd Singapore Biennale welcomes visitors. After propagating a sense of belief in the local art scene in 2006, and a spirit to question and probe in 2008, this y...

OPEN HOUSE 2011

2011.2.2　 Text: Fann ZJ

The formula to Open House 2009. Step 1) Take 5 homes and put art into them. Step 2) Invite the whole neighbourhood. Step 3) Invite everyone else. Step 4) Make sure the beer is readily available. The formula to Open...

ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2011

2011.1.28　 Text: Alicia Tan

Who said Singapore’s art scene is dead? Art Stage Singapore (henceforth known as Art Stage) is Asia’s answer to Art Basel and other leading art fairs and took the art world by storm as the first major international ar...