NEW! on Escape Routes: Sailing to Borneo + Art Fair Tokyo + new Garuda flight destinations

Escape Routes is I-S Magazine’s weekly travel newsletter, filled with exciting news on hotel openings, flights, insider tips and more! Here’s a quick rundown of what’s in the most recent edition of Escape Routes: Set sail with Burma Boating‘s cruise to Borneo Fly to remote Indonesian islands with Garuda Indonesia Stay at Palace Hotel Tokyo and check […]

Singapore Art Week 2014 kicks off: Sculpture madness and art on a bus!

We checked out some of the first exhibitions to open for Singapore Art Week (January 13-19) at two Gillman Barracks galleries, ARNDT and Sundaram Tagore Gallery. At the former is German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol‘s first solo show in Singapore. Although he is already a veteran in the European arts scene, his work has never before […]

Freewill Astrology, Week of January 17, 2014

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has had a major impact on the development of ideas in the Western world. We can reasonably divide the history of philosophy into two eras: pre-Kantian and post-Kantian. And yet for his whole life, which lasted 79 years, this big thinker never traveled more than ten […]

Interview: Boedi Widjaja of Drawing Cage

Indonesian artist Boedi Widjaja is set to showcase Drawing Cage, exploring time and space in the city, structured around the ideas, methods and relationships of composer-turned-visual-artist, John Cage. He tells us about his childhood and Singapore's potential as an arts hub.