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’
23 Dec 2015: Brian Skerry, an underwater photojournalist who shoots for ‘National Geographic’, is in town to talk about his life beneath the waves While you were perfecting that Double Windsor on your tie or applying the final touches of eyeliner this morning, there’s a good chance that Brian Skerry was swimming among sharks. As … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: Brian Skerry’s ‘Ocean Wild’
17 Dec 2015: Beauties and beasts roam the stages of this year’s M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, which returns with the theme of ‘art and the animal’. We pick out four productions that’ll unleash your wild side The Shape of a Bird Enter a wondrous world of birds and cicadas in this new work by local playwright … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2016
14 Dec 2015: It’s not always a case of avoiding the ‘exit through the gift store’ bit. These striking and creatively stocked museum shops are worth a visit in their own right The much-hyped National Gallery Singapore finally opened at the end of November, and it has partnered with a new collective called “& Co.” to … Continue reading The Guardian: Gallery & Co.
10 Dec 2015: Gwen Pew cha-cha-chas her way through the beaded curtains to delve into the sleazy ‘Beauty World’ ★★★★☆ As one of the first locally produced English-language musicals, there’s no denying that Dick Lee and Michael Chiang’s Beauty World holds a special place in Singapore’s theatrical canon. Twenty-seven years and five stagings later, it’s still … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: ‘Beauty World’ Review
8 Dec 2015: There’s nothing like winding down at the end of a big, action-packed year with a big, action-packed pantomime. And who else can we count on delivering that but Wild Rice? This time, the company took on Hans Christian Andersen’s short story, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and turned it into a full-fledged song-and-dance show. … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ Review
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
23 Nov 2015: Not as though we didn’t have enough already, we list the talks-of-the-town of the year Coney Island Also known as Pulau Serangoon, Coney Island reopened in October. If you’re looking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city and reconnect with nature – and maybe play a game of ‘spot the cow’ … Continue reading Time Out Singapore: Best of 2015 – Attractions
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