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

Preview: Alliance Française de Singapour presents the 2026 French Excellence Programme – À TABLE!

Wine, like art, is never just about what’s in the glass. It carries memory, place, ritual and emotion, ideas that sit at the heart of À TABLE!, the latest edition of the French Excellence Programme by Alliance Française de Singapour. Running from 7 February to 18 April 2026, the sixth instalment of the programme invites audiences to explore French winemaking not only as a craft, … Continue reading Preview: Alliance Française de Singapour presents the 2026 French Excellence Programme – À TABLE!

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’

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

★★★☆☆ Review: Scenes From The Climate Era by David Finnigan and Ellison Tan

Myriad views of the climate disaster and the desperation and depression that emerges in its rise. How does one frame a play about climate change and still add to the already burgeoning conversation? Adapted for a Singaporean production, Australian playwright David Finnigan’s Scenes From The Climate Era is keenly aware of the weighty and convoluted nature of the climate crisis, and how difficult it can … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Scenes From The Climate Era by David Finnigan and Ellison Tan

Review: My Body is (Not) My Body by Emergency Stairs and NAFA

Promenade theatre piece exploring the horror of being and existence within the rules and regulations of society. As part of their Industry Project initiative, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) is once again collaborating with local theatre company Emergency Stairs to give the graduating students of their Diploma in Theatre (English Drama) programme a chance to work with professionals in the theatre industry. This time … Continue reading Review: My Body is (Not) My Body by Emergency Stairs and NAFA