As an auld-lang-syne post, I’m just gonna jot down some advice for the curators/administrators for the third Singapore Biennale, if (inshi’allah) it actually takes place in our financially troubled times.
1. Move it up to the summer so that it’s actually somewhere around the Youth Olympics.  Also ensure that hotels do not overcharge for the Youth [...]

I feel I oughta mitigate some of what Ranger Mills said by mentioning some other comments from Singapore Art Gallery Guide.  Post-Museum did an interview with eight local artists to get their insights, and they were mostly pretty approving.
Some excerpts:

ARTHUR WONG: It was well curated, better than the first one. Individual works were very strong. [...]

To balance my esteemed co-blogger Ephraim Loy’s tub-thumpery, here’s a few quotes from the December issue of the SINGAPORE ART GALLERY GUIDE. Executive editor Usha Nathan’s been critiquing the setup mercilessly. In this issue, she quizzes American artist-who-never-exhibits Ranger Mills on his opinions, and boy, he’s vicious.
For the full interview (and lots of important [...]

The next stage after the official closing of Singapore Biennale 2008 is deinstallation. While the buzz remains outside, what is left is quiet on the inside. It’s the end of the hundred years of solitude and the start of some attitude.

Photo credit: Apryl Tan
The boxes from Address are sent back home to where they belong [...]

“The second Singapore Biennale is drawing crowds, with visitors praising its unique artworks which they say are easy to relate to. Even school children are finding it easy to connect to the works.”
- The Straits Times
“Curators of the Singapore Biennale 2008… have brought together an interesting group of emerging artists and should be credited with [...]

In response to mash’s gush about ISEA2008, I’d like to celebrate another recent international contemporary art whatchamacallit held here: THE SINGAPORE GARDEN FESTIVAL.
(Photos ahead! Enjoy!)

Don’t be fooled by the name: it’s not about gardens at all, at least not the kind you’d actually imagine having in your back yard or balcony. It was all about [...]

Did you read the Straits Times yesterday? (Correction: Thursday Dec 4th.) Life! had this big article ranking ten persons/organisations as the most powerful “movers and shakers” in the Singapore arts scene. All the usual suspects were there: No.1 was Lee Chor Lin, Head Curator at the National Museum, followed by folks from the [...]

Whoo!  One last bash at the Containart Pavilion!
I’d gone over there the day of closing:
It’s such a change from the very last day of the exhibition - I trekked over, and there was actually a queue outside Hans Op de Beeck’s “Location (6)”:

Just to feel the sauna-like atmosphere inside.

But enough of the past; let’s get [...]

Collator’s note: SMU professor and early performance poetry experimenter Dr Kirpal Singh just sent me this poem:
the singapore biennale, 2008- in absence
what impressed me most was the address
along with all the belongings from big to small
from necessary to luxury, from broken to whole
whether filipino or singaporean or european-
art has no real boundaries, no stated lines
no [...]