This week, don’t miss out on the sale cum exhibition Preservation over at multi-label boutique Spades, that’s part of a collaboration with archival fashion specialist Milieu – plenty of holy grails from some of the most directional designers in fashion history.
As for art geeks, there’ll be plenty to check out with the opening of the much-anticipated Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, as well as the Walk Walk Don’t Run programme by art space Grey Projects, which is an island-wide open studio walk. Details below.
Popular digital art exhibition, titled Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, has been touring since 2017 and more than five million people have visited. Now it’s finally rolled into town, making its Southeast Asian debut at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). The exhibition features more than 300 of the Dutch Post-Impressionist master’s works, and it’s intentionally designed to be accessible; visitors will encounter the artworks through a multitude of mediums (replicas, cutting-edge digital projections and Virtual Reality technology) across various thematic zones. In other words, this immersive experience is not your typically forbidding white cube show.
You’ll also get to learn more about the late master’s life and how they shaped his psyche, and in turn, his practice. For example, the Anamorphose room showcases a replica of van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles, France; the site depicted within his iconic painting The Bedroom, as well as key sources of influence on his work, such as the Japonisme movement in Europe in the late 1800s. And of course, the highlight most people are Gogh-ing for is likely the immersive rooms where you’ll get to soak (metaphorically) in some of van Gogh’s most famous works, such as the Sunflower series. Get your tickets here.
On now at Resorts World Sentosa
Independent art space Grey Projects is once again putting on Walk Walk Don’t Run – an island-wide open studio walk. Artists, designers and artisans all over Singapore are opening their private spaces, especially for this programme, which will happen over four Saturdays in March, with each weekend focusing on a specific area.
The opening weekend spotlights studios in the central civic district, but don’t come expecting guided tours. Rather, the programme was designed to foster spontaneity, informality, and random conversations with artists (hence the name Walk Walk Don’t Run, in which visitors are encouraged to take in things at a pace they’re most comfortable with). For the central area, eight spaces will be taking part such as Shrub (a store specialising in independent artist curios) over at Golden Mile Tower, as well as art incubator dblspce over at Peninsula Shopping Centre. Read more about each participating space here.
March 4, 10:30am-6pm, at various locations
As you’d know by now, the tenants in Golden Mile Complex will have to vacate by this May after the building’s en bloc sale last year. To bid farewell to this most beloved of landmarks, 13 independent music collectives have banded together to throw one last mega party titled The Last Mile across the cavernous complex this Saturday.
Tickets reportedly sold out within a day but if you’re dying to partake in the revelry, next-door neighbour The Projector over at Golden Mile Tower is throwing its own mini party cheekily called Next Mile (geddit?) on the same night. Japanese city pop maestro DJ Itch will be helming the decks, with supper available till 1am. If you’ve got the munchies, head on over. Admission is free.
March 4, 10:30pm till late, at #05-00 Golden Mile Tower
Appreciation and appetite for archival fashion is seemingly at an all-time high – recent high-profile examples include Zendaya in 1993 Prada at the NAACP Image Awards or Olivia Rodrigo in 2001 Chloe (yes, designed by then-creative director Stella McCartney) at the Billboard Women in Music Awards.
Now archival fashion specialist Milieu and independent multi-label boutique Spades have teamed up to put on a one-off event titled Preservation. It’s intended to be both a sale-slash-exhibition, where secondhand pieces from some of the most acclaimed labels around such as Carol Christian Poell, Balenciaga (dare we hope for Nicolas Ghesquiere-era pieces?), Yohji Yamamoto, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Jean Paul Gaultier and Margiela will be up for grabs (or simply admiration).
March 3-5, 1pm-9pm, at Spades, #02-04 MAE Industrial Building, 48 MacTaggart Road