Singapore Lures Buyers With Murakami, Wine, Pussy Riot
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Singapore is taking center stage on the global art circuit this week as collectors descend on the city-state for Southeast Asia’s largest art fair, auctions and a video by Russian feminist art collective Pussy Riot.
Anchoring Singapore Art Week is Art Stage, a fair featuring 130 galleries offering works by Takashi Murakami and Nam June Paik. More than 1,000 champagne-drinking VIPs got a preview of works at Marina Bay Sands Convention Center today, where traditionally some of the most important purchases are made before Art Stage opens to the public on Jan. 16. Collectors browsing the fair included Indonesian tycoon Budiardjo Tek, Swiss collector Uli Sigg and Tan Su Shan, head of consumer banking at DBS Bank Ltd.