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

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813236899_0017

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