Tag: Singapore Art Museum
Sydney Morning Herald Column
Singapore Biennale 2016
Friday, November 4th, 2016 Sydney Morning Herald Column,Once a cultural wasteland, Singapore is now so devoted to art it’s almost unnerving. Much of the action still takes place at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), where I found myself one steamy night last week for the launch of the fifth Singapore Biennale – An Atlas of Mirrors. Guests stood on the lawn in […]
Sydney Morning Herald Column
After Utopia
Saturday, September 5th, 2015 Sydney Morning Herald Column,Irony has never been a big feature of life in Singapore, but perhaps it’s catching on. Of all nations on the planet, Singapore is arguably the closest thing to a social laboratory, where economic and cultural programs are dreamt up by a paternalistic state and broadly accepted by the population. This centralised control has made […]