Arts

Ai Weiwei goes heavy metal with Dumbass single

9 hours 12 min ago

Chinese artist launches heavy metal career

Harry Potter book trumps Gandhi blood in UK auctions

13 hours 57 min ago

LONDON — A first edition copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” that contains author JK Rowling’s notes and original illustrations fetched £150,000 (US$286,800) at a...

Arts Reviews

Art review: Tetraphilia | 4/5, Landscape Memories | 3.5/5

By Joleen Loh -

19 hours 13 min ago

SINGAPORE — They are both held at fashion boutiques, but the ongoing exhibitions, Tetraphilia at Hermes and Landscape Memories at Espace Louis Vuitton, have more in common than...

Making it there

By Mayo Martin -

20 May

Next week, young actress Anjana Vasan will be flying back to the United Kingdom to meet her new colleague: A certain award-winning actor-director named Kenneth Branagh.

Arts Guide

Arts guide: May 20 to 26

20 May

EVERY TRICK ONLY NEEDS ONE TRUTH

State of the Arts

State of the Arts: May 13 to 19

By Mayo Martin -

20 May

SINGAPORE — The National Heritage Board held the doors to its museums open and welcomed Singaporeans and PRs to its new free-entry policy—and what better way to do it than...

Quidditch revealed

20 May

LONDON — The fictional sport of Quidditch was only invented because JK Rowling had an argument with her boyfriend, the Harry Potter author has disclosed.

The artist and the collective

By Mayo Martin -

13 May

When Vertical Submarine’s (VS) Justin Loke first announced his debut solo exhibition, The Seven Scenes Of Barry Lyndon, people immediately asked him: Was the art collective...