Artwork

TAKING HEART

When art makes the rounds: Geneco, Yellow Ribbon create a roving gallery

The aim is to not only bring awareness of giving second chances, but to highlight the importance of familial ties

The artwork "Das Mechanische Ballett" (1966-2015) by German artist Heinz Mack at Art Basel 2025.

At Art Basel, dealers reap rewards by sidestepping politics and war

The fair featured a preponderance of safe, apolitical works – which played to the mood of buyers

Mexican artist Jose Davila with his piece “The Act of Being Together”, which stacked colossal 16-tonne marble boulders that were quarried in the Chihuahua Desert of his nearby home country. .

Mirrors, marble and mud: Desert X returns to California

[Los Angeles] Mysterious metallic mirrors, stacks of imported marble boulders and a 3D-printed mud hut appeared in the California desert on Saturday (Mar 8), as the biennial outdoor art festival Deser...

Artist Hong Jinshi posing for photos next to a sculpture of US president-elect Donald Trump in a pose evoking the Buddha at his workshop in Xiamen, in southeastern China's Fujian province.

Chinese artist cashes in on Buddha-like Trump statues

DONALD Trump is not typically known for his calm or reserve, but in a craftsman’s workshop in rural China the US president-elect sits in divine contemplation.

Halim Zukic says: “We planted around 130,000 lavender bushes, tens of thousands of aromatic and medicinal plants, several thousand trees.”

Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' inspires Bosnian park

A Vincent Van Gogh aficionado in Bosnia has turned a plot of land into a giant, living reproduction of the painter’s masterpiece, Starry Night, composed of thousands of plants.

Art, no matter how striking or brilliant, is a mood board. The work is unimportant, what matters is that it creates an impression.
LIFE & CULTURE

Is it art – or is it interior decorating?

When we acquire a painting surely we are asking, ‘Where could I put that? Where would it fit?’ And does it go with the sofa?

Cheong Soo Pieng’s Mother And Child (1973) more than doubles its pre-sale estimate.

Cheong Soo Pieng work doubles estimates at Christie’s auction; Sotheby’s shows Georgette Chen orchids

Nanyang artist Cheong Soo Pieng’s Mother And Child (1973) more than doubled its pre-sale estimate, selling for HK$655,200 (S$113,230) at Christie’s spring auction in Hong Kong on Wednesday (May 29). T...

The terrace house is in the upscale Emerald Hill Residential Historic District, a prized and quiet location just off Orchard Road.
DESIGN

A conservation terrace house made for entertaining – and works of art 

The subdued exterior of this Emerald Hill residential shophouse hides a theatrical interior

Visitors at the Art Basel exhibition in Hong Kong in March.
LIFE & CULTURE

Art market experts see rebound in confidence after 2023 slump

A gallery executive says the beginning of this year has been extremely encouraging and far more active than the year prior

Linda Neo started collecting art as a means of sharing a common interest with her husband, Albert Lim.
LUXURY

Luxury investments: Why these Singaporeans collect art, watches and wine

These three categories are the top investments of passion here, a recent report shows