Clement Yong

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Clement Yong is a correspondent on the arts beat, covering books, theatre and the visual arts. He has been with The Straits Times since 2019.

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Poet Theophilus Kwek mourns migrant worker friend’s death in mesmerising Odeon

Non-fiction author Theophilus Kwek (left) titled Odeon: An Ode after Odeon Towers, a building Bangladesh national Fazley Elahi Rubel helped build and in which he once surreptitiously slept after being fired.

Award-winning screenwriter Michael Tay watches readings of books to decide if they are worth it

Michael Tay is staging his one-man play Mom And I Go To The Temple in New York.

Don’t let China row distract from art: Artistic director of Gwangju Biennale Ho Tzu Nyen

American film-maker James T. Hong’s Apologies (2012-present) assembles 11 hours of footage of politicians apologising.

Only 10% of SG Culture Pass credits used a year after launch; MCCY to create portal to lift senior uptake

(From left) Zachary Pang, Ghafir Akbar and Andrew Marko in A Mirror, Pangdemonium’s staging of a 2023 work about an illicit play in the guise of a wedding.

‘Public servants are the No. 1 wordsmiths’: poet Joshua Yap’s lessons on leadership in sonnet form

Sing Lit Station director Joshua Yap with his new poetry collections published by Landmark Books.

Gwangju Biennale resolves naming row over Taiwan pavilion

Singapore artist Ho Tzu Nyen is the artistic director of 2026’s Gwangju Biennale and one of the signees of the curatorial team’s open letter.

Singapore Arts Guide (Aug 26 to Sept 2): Naughty nudes and river scenes at Art Again birthday show

The nautical and naughty are brought into the same room in Art Again’s third birthday show.

Agam Theatre Lab’s Kai Varisai fails to make a wish on its cursed monkey paw

Karls Karthikeyan lolls his tongue and jerks his head as an eccentric senior historian.

Author Rae Tan is first Singaporean to win Book of the Year at Australia’s CBCA awards

Rae Tan won in the early childhood category at the long-running literary award set up in 1946.

‘My art is nobody’s, not even mine’: Artist Eko Nugroho paints murals for Robertson Quay solo

Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho at his exhibition, titled Strange Monster View, at STPI, a print and paper gallery and workshop in Robertson Quay.

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