Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
3-2018
Abstract
This chapter has two objectives. The first is to critically interrogate the state’s efforts in utilising the visual arts as a means to position Singapore as an international arts hub and marketplace. As Kwok Kian Woon and Low Kee-Hong have noted, “Singapore’s cultural policy has everything to do with staying on top as a focal node in the late-capitalist world system of the new millennium” (Kwok and Low, 2002, p. 154). This chapter offers an overview of the programmes and initiatives introduced by the state from the 1990s to the present in order to encourage the entry of international art galleries and major commercial platforms, and to position Singapore as a key player in the international art market. The second objective is to explore some of the tensions, if not contradictions, in this pursuit of global city status.
Keywords
Arts hub, cultural policy, Singapore, art market
Discipline
Arts and Humanities | Arts Management | Asian Studies | Public Policy
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
The state and the arts in Singapore: Policies and institutions
Editor
Terence Chong
First Page
139
Last Page
167
ISBN
9789813236905
Identifier
10.1142/9789813236899_0017
Publisher
World Scientific
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
HOE, Su Fern. (2018). Global ambitions: Positioning Singapore as a contemporary arts hub. In The state and the arts in Singapore: Policies and institutions (pp. 139-167). Singapore: World Scientific.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2791
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813236899_0017
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