How are Art Fairs Faring?
By Ooi Kok Chuen
April 2018 PENANG PALETTE
As the global economy becomes multipolar, changes are to be expected in all sectors where big money flows. That includes the buying and selling of art.It is strange that even as the well-heeled art lovers and collectors were shuffling around the 84 booths at this year’s Art Stage Singapore (on January 26-28, its eighth edition), a lugubrious pall hung over it like a dirge.Pagoda II (oil on canvas, 1964).Malam Merah (Red Night) (oil on canvas, 1968).Deux Bateaux (Two Boats,1964).The usual...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
