Bringing art to the Village

HOLLAND Village may have lost some of its cool, but it makes up for it this March with a burst of artistic cred.

OH! Open House, the art walk that puts art in unexpected places, has picked Holland Village for its seventh edition.

Visitors will find doughnut-like sculptures sprouting out of the ground at the Hakka Cemetery, paper and cotton installations creeping up the walls of a home, and experimental videos playing in hidden spaces.

OH! artistic director Alan Oei said: "All neighborhoods evolve and change. For a long time, Holland V was an epitome of what's cool and happening. It was a place with a firm cultural identity of being atas (Malay for upper class) and e…