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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‘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.

Clare Willis visited every MRT station before writing debut novel The Singapore Secret

10-course Michelin meal, buffets, gastrobar: Theatre companies take shows into food venues

Chef Ivan Brehm (left), owner of Nouri Restaurant, with playwright Huzir Sulaiman; and the cast of Choo’s Masquerade Party: A Buffet Of Hidden Agendas.

Handle With Care is a modest effort at unrehearsed storytelling with a box as the director

A Singapore audience trying out Ontroerend Goed’s Handle With Care.

Bedok festival show, activities with Ubin villagers among projects supported by $40,000 AGEncy fund

In The Middle Of The Water is a promenade theatre work performed by Chng Xin Xuan (pictured) and written by Kok Heng Leun.

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