Punch-Drunk Singapore Boxing

  FROM 200 gladiators 50 years ago to just eight now. Can Singapore boxing recover from the TKO? Bringing smelling salts to the sport is Alexander Shah.  “In the next five years, I...

Roger Dean – Art To Music

IN THE mundane, Roger Deans sees the fantastic. Dean's art has graced the covers of albums since the 1970s, developing a style that is dreamlike yet bordering on the imaginative as...

Moving Too Fast To Be Moved

CAN ART do more than just sit on a wall? Does art still have the ability to move people? Is art a force for change? And if art no longer...

The Route Less Travelled

WILL the large, bold figures clambering over the former military barracks at Gillman be enough to draw in an appreciative audience to this lonely art outpost? Los Angeles based artist...

Artist Nan Qi’s Dot Matrix

For Chinese artist Nan Qi, building his art perspective took him along a pathway dotted with Chinese and Western ideas and ideology. The opening up of China to the world...

The Greatest Beauty Doesn’t Talk

2016 HAS claimed a record number of famous artists. Bookended by the shock of David Bowie succumbing to cancer and the recent passing of George Michael, Richard Adams and Carrie Fisher...

Peter Wants Ai To Be A Big Draw

PETER Draw does things out of love. The basis of his existence is rooted in the core value that love conquers all and offers hope for society. The jovial bachelor...

Tattoo Your Holiday Memories

WITH tattoos making the quick leap from sub culture to pop culture, parlours offering these inking services have been popping up with abandon around the world. Your next holiday in...
When The Moon Is Orbed, Tan Swie Hian

Master Strokes Of Tan Swie Hian

FROM a bad student to a record-breaking artist, Tan Swie Hian has let nothing fetter his imagination. From poems to philosophy, sculpture to art, this gifted septuagenarian still burns...

Lights To Remember At The National Gallery

The National Gallery celebrates its first anniversary with a feast of art that adds to an already full platter in Singapore. At a time of an abundance of art flowing...