Interesting Reads

Hi all!

Just read an article on South China Morning Post about Art Stage,"Singapore Art Scene losing ground to HK and SEA, says Art Stage Singapore Founder." Interesting, you read about it and decide. A lot of reasons for the 'demise' of Art Stage. My main peeve was that Art Stage wanted to just make money by getting more galleries and loosen up the curation and criteria and allowed in too many galleries which shouldn't have been allowed in otherwise and reduced the quality. Not talking about price points but quality. Think that was a short term gain and didn't take the long term view. Maybe he anticipated pulling out when the government funding/ grants go down to a trickle. Other people have other things to say and you can read more on the internet. Overall Art Stage did a good job and served its purpose well. Art Week is a big thing now. And a lot of galleries are doing satellite fairs to save the 50k for a decent size booth, i.e. Ikkan Art at Helutrans, Shared Co-ordinates (Eduardo Malingue, ROH project, Silverlens and Fost gallery). NGS is also taking the lead with Lights at Night. The seed of art culture/appreciation has been planted and hopefully cultural advancement/being cultured will eventually be as important as being financially wealthy. Something which was necessarily sacrificed in the earlier development of the country.

Another link. All the art fairs this year. You can plan your travels or business trips to match these fairs. Business and pleasure or just pure pleasure.