29 Dec 2015: Gwen Pew and Andrea Cheong round up the best exhibitions, festivals, fairs and tours to check out during the nine-day extravaganza Art Fairs Art Stage 2016 Art Stage – the main event around which the rest of Art Week revolves – returns for the sixth year and is once again set to take … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: Art Week 2016
28 Dec 2015: How did you first get into picture framing? By accident. I was trained as a marine engineer, but when I was waiting for my ‘O’ Level results to come out, I spent six months at Merlin Frame Maker – probably the oldest framers in Singapore. I did NS in the navy, but … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: Steven Yip, Q Framing
28 Dec 2015: Artist Donna Ong’s latest exhibition, ‘My Forest has no Name’, invites visitors to look at tropical rainforests from a different light Stepping through the door, we immediately find ourselves surrounded by lush layers of leaves. A few parrots peer at us curiously, while a tiger and a leopard snuggle together on the far … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: ‘My Forest has no Name’
25 Nov 2015: We round up the top highlights of this year’s cultural calendar Best theatre festival Singapore International Festival of Arts Helmed by festival director Ong Keng Sen, the Singapore International Festival of Arts returned this year with a theme of ‘Post-Empires’, a decidedly local flavour and an ambitious mini dance festival on top of … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: Best of 2015 – Arts
10 Nov 2015: It started, as many great things do, with a child’s tantrum. Juno Tay was six and bored at home – her mum, Pepper See, had been sleeping – when she acted up. But she wasn’t banished to the dunce corner. Instead, See gave her paint and a canvas: ‘I tasked her to surprise … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: ‘Pepper and Juno in a TV-less World’
26 Oct 2015: The wait is over, folks – the National Gallery Singapore has finally opened, promising loads of artsy activities in a beautifully restored space. We find out more about the new jewel in the Lion City’s crown Sixty-four thousand square metres, spread across two monumental buildings, with thousands of pieces of art on its … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: National Gallery Singapore
14 Aug 2015: In just five years, Chan Hampe Galleries has built a name for itself as a popular, exciting and successful art space. It regularly sells out at art fairs and the young local artists it represents are among the most sought-after both in Singapore and overseas. Now, with its reputation consolidated, the people behind … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: Chan Hampe Galleries’ Fifth Anniversary
6 Aug 2015: We got ten artists and designers to put their spin on the unfortunately ubiquitous SG50 logo. They’re way better than the actual thing, if you ask us. Here are three examples ‘It’s often said that the people make a nation, but I feel that our city’s skyline also speaks volumes. This pieces personifies … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: Alternative SG50 Logos
1 Jul 2015: Gwen Pew talks to Paul Husner about his artwork Swiss artist Paul Husner’s first love led him to his second. It started when his anthropologist wife, Tine, wanted to study the Batak culture in Sumatra. The couple arrived in 1983: ‘Tine to conduct her research, me to draw and paint,’ he tells us. … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: ‘Paul Husner on Bali ‘
8 Jun 2015: Photographer Ernest Goh is about to take over Objectifs with a whole lotta dead creepy-crawlies A couple of years ago, Ernest Goh came across a 1992 study that concluded people tend to better appreciate a present if it’s been gift-wrapped. As he mulled over the concept of packaging, it occurred to him that … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: ‘Breakfast at 8, Jungle at 9’
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