Challenging Times Ahead for Art Fairs in Asia

By Ooi Kok Chuen

March 2019 PENANG PALETTE
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A newspaper clipping on the cancellation of Art Stage Singapore, in the Singapore Straits Times.The abrupt cancellation of Art Stage (AS) Singapore a week before its January 25 opening has caused ripples in the region’s art scene.The fair’s founder-president Lorenzo Rudolf, a Swiss national behind the success of Swiss Art Basel, blamed the canning on “exorbitant prices, a weak local market” and “unequal competition,” lambasting a peripheral fair, SEA Focus, at Gillman Barracks, for “cannibalism” (of its potential clients). Gillman...

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Ooi Kok Chuen

is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.

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