Top international designers, fashion icons, Asian supermodels, red-carpet parties and more!  Gear up for five days of high-octane glamour and fashion as Mugler, Roland Mouret and Zac Posen light up the future at this year’s Audi Fashion Festival.  Expect to discover the newest crop of Asian and international talent with designers arriving in Singapore from Paris, New York, Australia, Seoul, Bangkok and Berlin. 

Join in the post-show revelry with exciting design dinners, after –parties and satellite events taking place island wide.  Audi Fashion Festival revs into town from 16-20 May 2012.

For more information visit Audi Fashion Festival website.

Magnum, the brand synonymous with indulgent pleasure and one of the world’s leading ice cream brands will be commemorating the launch of its new Magnum Temptation range with a contemporary Parisian-themed Magnum Dessert Bar pop-up at ION Square from 12 May to 23 May 2012 and collaborating with Chef Janice Wong to create an exclusive Magnum Temptation Dessert Menu. The Magnum Temptation Dessert Menu will also be made available at 2am:dessertbar from 25 May to 10 June 2012.

Date: 12th to 23rd May 2012
Time: 12 noon to 10pm
Venue: ION Square

Galerie Steph is presents “Incarnate”, the first Singapore exhibition of New
York-based Filipino artist Jana Benitez. It is deeply engaged with expressing emotions and abstract concepts.The show will feature the artist’s Abstract Expressionist paintings and will run from 11 May – 30 June 2012. For more details visit www.galeriesteph.com.

Date: 11 May to 30th June 2012
Time: 12noon to 7 pm (Tuesday to Saturday)
Venue: Artspace@Helutrans
Address: 39 Keppel Road, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, #01-05

HuM Theatre, the producers of Rafta Rafta and Prisoner of Mumbai Mansion, are back with another full-blown comedy, The Kanjoos.

A play in English adapted from Moliere’s famous French comedy, The Miser, The Kanjoos is love story thrown into array by a stingy old man whose undying avarice for money supersedes everything else in life. He is Kanjooswamy , part-time manufacturer of toilet fittings, part-time loan shark and full-time skinflint. The Kanjoos with it’s cast of multiracial characters is classic farce at it’s best!

Buy tickets through SISTIC agents, www.sistic.com.sg or the hotline: 6348 5555.

Date: 11-19 May 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: DBS Arts Centre - Home of SRT
Price: S$62, S$52, S$45

Handsome: IVSG presents 12 artists exploring representations of gender and masculinity through a collective installation curated by Marla Bendini. The theme ‘handsome’ is inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe’s work, which often pairs objectionable content with some of the most beautiful images in contemporary art. Handsome: IVSG is presented by rainbowartsproject, a project dedicated to the development of LGBT-related artworks in forms of exhibition, documentation, research and collection.

Date: 6th to 17th May 2012 
Time: 12 noon to 9pm
Venue: The Substation Gallery
Price: Free

A Chorus Line, the musical for everyone who’s ever had a dream and put it all on the line. Winner of nine Tony Awards®, including “Best Musical” and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, this singular sensation is one of the longest-running American musical in Broadway history! Buy tickets through SISTIC agents, www.sistic.com.sg or the hotline: 6348 5555.

Date: 4th to 27th May 2012
Time: 7.30pm (Tuesday to Friday), 1.30pm & 7.30pm (Saturday and Sunday)
Venue: Sands Theater at Marina Bay Sands
Price: S$55 to S$165

The PANORAMA series of exhibitions offers a wide lens to examine our world and allows for a diversity of perspectives, charting some of these issues, which are pervading contemporary art-making in Asia today - social and political change, the negotiation over values, escalating urbanisation and the subsequent pressures on nature.

Artists such as Agnes Arellano reminds us of the power of myths and its role in constructing tradition and identity, Agus Suwage tracks the legendary figures that influenced the history and thinking of today, Nalini Malani recalls the religious conflict that caused many deaths in India, while :phunk points us to electricity, as a symbol of the creative energy that propelled innovation and the growth of modern global cities like Singapore.

Drawn entirely from the contemporary art collection of the Singapore Art Museum, this first edition of PANORAMA features 23 artists from 8 countries working in painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video and installation.

Join SAM Assistant Curator, David Chew, on the Curator's tour of contemporary art in Asia, taken from the collections of the Singapore Art Museum. He will discuss how the works reveal the unique time and context we live in by charting issues that pervade art-making in the region – from social and political change, to the negotiation of values, as well as the escalating urbanization and subsequent pressures.

25 Apr, Wednesday, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
$12 (includes admission to the exhibition). Tickets available at SAM and SISTIC.

Limited spaces. For ticket purchase at the door, please call SISTIC hotline 6348 5555 for availability.



Exhibition details:

Exhibition Venue: Singapore Art Museum, 71 Bras Basah Road.

Opening Hours Mondays to Sundays, 10am to 7pm (Last admission at 6:15pm) and Fridays, 10am to 9pm.

Admission Fees
(Combined SAM and SAM at 8Q)
Adults : S$10
Students (with valid student card) : S$5
Senior Citizens (Foreign) : S$5

20% discount on admission fees for group of 20 pax or more. Admission ticket includes $1 SISTIC fee and is available from SAM and SISTIC.

Admission is free for visitors aged 6 years and below, Singaporean and PR senior citizens, fulltime NS men and students and teachers from local schools.

Free admission on Fridays from 6pm and on Open House days.


Guided Tours for SAM

English Tours:
Mondays: 2pm
Tuesdays to Thursdays: 11am & 2pm
Fridays: 11pm, 2pm & 7pm
Saturdays and Sundays: 11am, 2pm & 3.30pm

Japanese Tours: Tuesdays to Fridays: 10:30am
Mandarin Tours: Fridays 7:45pm

SAM online
www.singaporeartmuseum.sg
www.facebook.com/singaporeartmuseum
www.twitter.com/singaporeart
www.youtube.com/samtelly

Enquiries 6332 3222 or 6332 3200, nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg

The entire floor of Third Floor-Hermès will be transformed into a kaleidoscope of flora motifs in bright colour pigments, recalling the patterns of a summer Japanese kimono. Shinji Ohmaki’s new installation, “Moment and Eternity” is supported by The Fondation d'entreprise Hermès.

Its metamorphosis revolves around the footpaths of visitors distorting the pigmented colour surface to create new, unexpected forms. Beyond its purely material exhilaration, “Moment and Eternity” offers a profound experience for audiences to engage in the effects of time in a work of art.

Date: 20th April to 3rd June 2012
Time: 10.30am to 7.30pm
Venue: Third Floor Hermès
Address: 541 Orchard Road, Liat Towers
Price: Free

Not Against Interpretation is an experimental platform to nurture an appreciation for contemporary art. The projects created on this platform exploit the ‘openness’ of contemporary art, the fact that it can be interpreted in many ways, as an opportunity to engage with people from varied backgrounds.

Venue:
Singapore Art Museum

Opening Hours:
Mondays to Sundays | 10am to 7pm (Last admission at 6:15pm) Fridays | 10am to 9pm

Admission Fees:
Adults $10, Students (with valid student card) $5, Senior Citizens (Foreign) $5.

20% discount on admission fees for group of 20 pax or more.

Admission ticket includes $1 SISTIC fee and is available from SAM and SISTIC.

Admission is free for visitors aged 6 years and below, Singaporean and PR senior citizens, fulltime NS men and students and teachers from local schools.

Free admission from now till 13 th April 2012, on Fridays from 6pm and on Open House days.