Visual Art: Wan Hai Hotel – Singapore Strait turns the Warehouse Hotel into living art

For twelve days in January, The Warehouse Hotel ceases to function merely as a site of transit and hospitality. Instead, it becomes something more porous, more unstable, and more alive. As part of Singapore Art Week 2026, Wan Hai Hotel: Singapore Strait transforms the hotel lobby into a speculative maritime commons, one in which performance, sound, moving image, and object-based works unfolded not as static … Continue reading Visual Art: Wan Hai Hotel – Singapore Strait turns the Warehouse Hotel into living art

Visual Art: Kwai Fung Hin Singapore’s debut exhibition celebrates Monet’s garden and its afterlife

Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery’s inaugural exhibition in Singapore unfolds with an unhurried confidence. Located along South Beach, Worlds Beyond Reality – Monet’s Legacy II adopts a slower tempo, one that mirrors its central metaphor of cultivation. The exhibition does not simply trace influence from Claude Monet to Asian artists across generations; it examines how landscapes are made, tended, and inhabited, and how artistic vision … Continue reading Visual Art: Kwai Fung Hin Singapore’s debut exhibition celebrates Monet’s garden and its afterlife

Visual Art: NTU Museum’s “On the cusp” features new works inspired by memory, identity and transitions

Something about Nanyang Technological University’s campus feels different. By the lake, a pavilion hums with unseen histories. On a grassy lawn nearby, a sculptural capsule seems to have landed from another time. And inside a bustling student plaza, a familiar household object begins to behave in unfamiliar ways. This is On the cusp, NTU Museum’s latest campus-wide exhibition, where art inhabits everyday spaces and asks … Continue reading Visual Art: NTU Museum’s “On the cusp” features new works inspired by memory, identity and transitions

Visual Art: Kwai Fung Hin Announces First Overseas Branch in Singapore Inaugural Exhibition ‘Worlds beyond Reality – Monet’s Legacy II’

On a sunlit stretch of South Beach, where heritage architecture meets the pulse of modern Singapore, a new cultural address is quietly taking root. On 20th January 2026, Hong Kong–founded Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery will open its first overseas outpost in the city, marking a thoughtful expansion rather than a flashy arrival. The debut sets the tone with an exhibition that feels as much … Continue reading Visual Art: Kwai Fung Hin Announces First Overseas Branch in Singapore Inaugural Exhibition ‘Worlds beyond Reality – Monet’s Legacy II’

Visual Art: The Columns Gallery present Filipino contemporary art in ‘Isang Dipang Langit’

Step into the cavernous halls of Tanjong Pagar Distripark and you are immediately aware of space, its vastness, its echo, its openness. It feels less like entering a gallery than walking into an unfinished sky. This sense of openness is no accident. Isang Dipang Langit: Fragments of Memory, Fields of Now, presented by Columns Gallery, takes its title from a phrase in a poem by … Continue reading Visual Art: The Columns Gallery present Filipino contemporary art in ‘Isang Dipang Langit’

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

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)

Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s ‘Temple’: National Gallery Singapore’s newest installation turns the remnants of war into space for healing

Visitors stepping onto the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery at National Gallery Singapore encounter a cluster of suspended shells, bells and chimes that glimmer with both menace and promise. Touch becomes participation. Sound becomes memory. The installation, titled Temple, marks the Gallery’s first rooftop commission to entwine motion, sound and public interaction. Temple is the latest milestone in the practice of Vietnamese-American artist Tuan … Continue reading Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s ‘Temple’: National Gallery Singapore’s newest installation turns the remnants of war into space for healing

★★★★☆ Dance Review: Softmachine – The Return by Choy Ka Fai

Choy Ka Fai reunites five artists to reflect on change, growth, and their relationship to body and the world. The world in 2015 was a very different place. Since then, politics, pandemics, technology, and society at large have shifted dramatically, but so have each of us, for better or worse. Yet one thing remains constant: our individuality and the human drive to innovate. This is … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Dance Review: Softmachine – The Return by Choy Ka Fai

Concert Review: National Day Concert 2025 by Temasek Foundation X Singapore Symphony Orchestra

8th edition of SSO’s annual concert presents a symphony of resilience, memory, and dreams to mark nation’s 60th birthday. The Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s National Day Concert, supported by Temasek Foundation, is always a celebratory affair. But on the occasion of Singapore’s 60th anniversary, it strives to become a portrait of our country, establishing us as a nation of many languages, many rhythms, many stories. From … Continue reading Concert Review: National Day Concert 2025 by Temasek Foundation X Singapore Symphony Orchestra