/ Sep 15, 2026
Culture
GIA vs SSEF vs Gübelin: what actually gets checked on coloured stones above S$50,000 in 2026
Above roughly S$50,000, a single lab report stops being sufficient, and the choice of laboratory stops being a formality...
/ Aug 25, 2026
Culture
Art in a city of vaults: freeports, collections and quiet capital
Singapore's art market grows faster each year, yet a meaningful share of what moves through the city never appears on a ...
/ Aug 14, 2026
Culture
In Plain Sight: A Decade of Hand-Plucked Paper Comes to Gillman Barracks
Sundaram Tagore Gallery presents a mid-career survey of the Chicago-based artist's tactile paper works, on view August 1...
/ Aug 05, 2026
Culture
Collectors At The Centre: The Private Patrons Building Singapore Into Southeast Asia’s Contemporary Art Capital
Art SG closed its 2026 edition with more than 43,000 visitors across four days. One Seoul gallery left with US$2.76 mill...
/ Jul 31, 2026
Culture
One room, one book: what Tokyo’s smallest bookstore understands about attention
In Ginza, a bookstore the size of a walk-in closet sells exactly one title a week — the same book, in multiple copies, s...
/ Jul 20, 2026
Culture
Before Gold, There Were Beads How Humanity’s Earliest Ornaments Invented the Idea of Worth
Long before agriculture, cities or writing, humans were already drilling holes into seashells to wear them on their bodi...