Visual Art: Eunice Yeo’s ‘WINGS’ Takes Flight at Marina Bay Sands

During Singapore Art Week, visitors to Marina Bay Sands will encounter a radiant presence hovering between sculpture, architecture and light. WINGS, a new large-scale installation by Singapore artist Eunice Yeo, unfolds across the Level 3 Foyer of the Expo & Convention Centre from 18 January to 8 February 2026, offering not only a visual spectacle but a powerful example of art in service of community … Continue reading Visual Art: Eunice Yeo’s ‘WINGS’ Takes Flight at Marina Bay Sands

Visual Art: Digital Art Week Asia’s New Media art exhibition ’99 Years’ comes to Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter

This January, one of Singapore’s most intriguing art experiences isn’t happening in a white cube gallery or a glossy museum hall. Instead, it unfolds underground, inside a rarely opened air raid shelter in Tiong Bahru. From 19 to 26 January 2026, Digital Art Week Asia (DAWA) presents 99 Years, a new media art exhibition set within Singapore’s only surviving pre-war civilian air raid shelter, built … Continue reading Visual Art: Digital Art Week Asia’s New Media art exhibition ’99 Years’ comes to Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter

BTS Returns to Singapore for a Historic Four-Night Concert Run in December 2026

BTS is officially returning to Singapore this December, nd not just for one night, but four epic nights, making it their longest concert run in Asia outside of Korea and Japan. For ARMYs across the region, Singapore is about to become the place to be. This milestone cements Singapore’s status as a global entertainment capital, a city that knows how to do big moments, bigger … Continue reading BTS Returns to Singapore for a Historic Four-Night Concert Run in December 2026

Visual Art: National Gallery Singapore unveils blockbuster 2026 lineup of exhibitions

As Singapore Art Week approaches once again, the 2026 art season is already shaping up to be a major one, with anticipation and curiosity as to what lies ahead in the coming months. And across the calendar, National Gallery Singapore’s season is already shaping up to be one of its most ambitious years yet. This year, the Gallery brings together landmark international collaborations, reappraisals of … Continue reading Visual Art: National Gallery Singapore unveils blockbuster 2026 lineup of exhibitions

Visual Art: Light to Night Singapore 2026 reveals ‘The Powers in Us’ for landmark 10th edition

The year begins under a different kind of glow. Arriving a full additional weekend ahead of their usual schedule, Light to Night Singapore 2026 opens the arts calendar with a sense of ceremony, casting the Civic District into a luminous state of gathering. For four weekends, the city feels momentarily enchanted, where familiar spaces made strange, histories resurfacing, and art operating as a quiet magic … Continue reading Visual Art: Light to Night Singapore 2026 reveals ‘The Powers in Us’ for landmark 10th edition

Visual Art: National Gallery Singapore’s ‘Fear No Power – Women Imagining Otherwise’

There is an intriguing double meaning embedded in the title of National Gallery Singapore’s latest exhibition. Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise is not only an act of defiance against entrenched systems of authority; it is also a quiet injunction directed inward. To fear no power is to recognise one’s own capacity to act, imagine, and effect change. Across five artistic practices, the exhibition foregrounds … Continue reading Visual Art: National Gallery Singapore’s ‘Fear No Power – Women Imagining Otherwise’

Preview: Pretty Ugly by Theo Chen

Theo feels pretty… sometimes.Theo feels ugly… a lot. That push and pull between confidence and self-doubt, between wanting to be seen and wanting to hide, is the central concern of Pretty Ugly, an intimate cabaret performance coming to Singapore this January as part of *SCAPE’s Comma Festival. Performed by musical theatre artist Theo Chen, Pretty Ugly is what happens when that inner voice gets a … Continue reading Preview: Pretty Ugly by Theo Chen

Books: Epigram Books reveals lineup of children’s books and strong local voices in first half of 2026

Despite a shrinking local publishing scene, Epigram Books is doubling down on children’s literature and distinctive non-fiction in the first half of 2026, unveiling nine new titles that span picture books, middle-grade adventures, history, memoir and food culture. Speaking at a media engagement, Epigram founder Edmund Wee framed the new lineup against what he described as a sobering reality for Singapore publishing. With several presses … Continue reading Books: Epigram Books reveals lineup of children’s books and strong local voices in first half of 2026

Arts of Thailand: An Interview with Dr Apinan Poshyananda on the state of contemporary art in Thailand, and Bangkok Art Biennale 2026

BANGKOK, THAILAND – Bangkok is a city that never resolves itself. It glitters and it crumbles, it meditates and it riots, it worships and it forgets. It is a city of angels perpetually shadowed by its own Mara; its doubts, temptations, desires, missteps. Few people understand this duality as intimately as Prof. Dr. Apinan Poshyananda, the driving force behind the Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) for … Continue reading Arts of Thailand: An Interview with Dr Apinan Poshyananda on the state of contemporary art in Thailand, and Bangkok Art Biennale 2026

Preview: Resounding Winds – Liu Chiang-Pin and SCO (吹管妙清商: 劉江濱与新加坡华乐团)

This January, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra’s concert hall will fill with sounds that are at once ancient and unmistakably modern. Think piercing suona calls, mellow sheng chords and rhythmic percussion, but also rap cadences, jazz harmonies and folk improvisations. This is Resounding Winds: Liu Chiang-Pin and the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, happening on 17 January 2026, a concert that reimagines what Chinese wind music can be … Continue reading Preview: Resounding Winds – Liu Chiang-Pin and SCO (吹管妙清商: 劉江濱与新加坡华乐团)