ART SG, the new international art fair for Southeast Asia, opens today with a VIP Preview at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore. Presented by Founding and Lead Partner UBS and organised by The Art Assembly, ART SG opens to the public from 12 – 15 January 2023. The fair presents over 160 international galleries from 35 countries and territories around the … Continue reading Art What!: The First Edition of ART SG Now Open
Following on from The Swimming Pool Library, multi-disciplinary artist Brian Gothong Tan has completed work on his second commission of T:>works’ Artistic Atelier, this time diving into the world of non-fungible tokens (NFT). In this exhibition, works are in part spawned from and inspired by T:>Works’ new T:>NFT, a dedicated digital platform for NFTs created by artists commissioned and presented by T:>Works, in a collection … Continue reading T:>Works’ #Metazomia Exhibition by Brian Gothong Tan explores realm of NFTs by dreaming up new worlds and futures
Come 2023, Checkpoint Theatre is introducing an exciting season ahead, with new work, a hot favourite, and a previously delayed staging, all coming to the Drama Centre Black Box across the year, as the company continues to present and develop important, original stories from Singapore. The season opens with Myle Yan Tay’s Brown Boys Don’t Tell Jokes. Directed by and with dramaturgy by Huzir Sulaiman, … Continue reading Preview: Checkpoint Theatre 2023 Season
The National Arts Council (NAC) launches a public roadshow, Growing Home: A showcase about The Arts Plan and You, inviting the public to embark on an interactive journey that explores the endless possibilities of the next five-year masterplan for Singapore’s arts, and to share their views. From live silkscreen printing sessions to becoming a curator for a day, visitors will see The Arts Plan (TAP) … Continue reading Growing Home: An Interactive Showcase on Highlights of Our SG Arts Plan (2023 – 2027)
National Gallery Singapore’s Light to Night Festival – a marquee event of Singapore Art Week – makes its post-pandemic return to the Civic District from 6 – 26 January 2023. This edition of the festival features a myriad of art-meets-lifestyle activities, Singapore premiere of artworks by artists from around the world, as well as new immersive day-to-night installations. All happening on-site at the Civic District, … Continue reading Art What!: Light to Night Festival 2023 – Here & Now
The hidden life of trees, revealed. Written by Jenny Lyn Bader and directed by Erin B Mee, in This Is Not A Theatre Company’s Tree Confessions, audience members get to hear from a character they’d never have imagined ever hearing the voice of: a tree. The mechanics of the show are simple – audience members are required to find a tree of their choosing, sit … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Tree Confessions by This Is Not A Theatre Company
Darkly comic fairytale about seeking help, told through a surreal puppet show. It’s not often a puppet show opens with a scene of its protagonist attempting to hang himself. But that is precisely how homemade puppet theatre show Django In Pain begins, and only goes down an increasingly surreal narrative that will surprise you at every turn. Co-created by husband and wife theatremaking duo Antonio … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Django In Pain by Por Piedad Teatro & The Play Company
Organised by Arts House Limited (AHL), the Aliwal Urban Art Festival (AUAF) makes its return on 14 January 2023 for its seventh edition to showcase Singapore’s vibrant urban culture scene at the Aliwal Arts Centre (AAC). Taking place on the last weekend of Singapore Art Week 2023, the Festival will feature renowned local artists from different urban art practices in an exciting array of free … Continue reading Art What!: Aliwal Urban Art Festival 2023
“We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.”- Marc Augé, ‘Oblivion’ For the House; Against the House returns for its third edition with two new motions up for debate. Titled ______ is Dead, the debate-oriented series presents ‘The Museum is Dead’ and ‘Desire is Dead’ conceptualised by Singaporean curators John Tung and Adele Tan respectively. … Continue reading Art What!: OH! Open House’s For the House; Against the House 2023 – The Museum is Dead and Desire is Dead
Singapore Art Museum (SAM) will officially open Joo Choon Lin: Dance in the Destruction Dance at Tanjong Pagar Distripark this month, inviting audiences into a sensorially rich landscape that reimagines perceptions of form, reality, and human consciousness through everyday objects. Open to the public from 13 January to 16 April 2023, the exhibition by Singaporean artist Joo Choon Lin is the second solo exhibition under … Continue reading Art What!: Joo Choon Lin – Dance in the Destruction Dance at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
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