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Five true stories from the art world, where the frightening part is almost never the artwork. Read to the end and we’ll match you with an artwork based on your favourite horror film.

Every established artist has a signature collectors know on sight. Then a work surfaces that looks like nothing else from that hand. We gather these rarer departures, from Chua Mia Tee’s hotel interiors to Tay Bak Koi’s nudes, and talk about why they may be desirable to a collector.

What makes a work queer? The conventional markers are familiar: sensuality, the body, same-sex desire. But the category gets more interesting the longer you sit with it. This Pride Month, we went looking for what it leaves out.

A young couple on designing their first home as a canvas for art, and the Keiko Moriuchi piece they brought home from our Motif exhibition.

New to Singapore, a couple on building a home of stories, featuring Zhuang Hong Yi diptychs and a bold Symon piece from the Art Again marketplace that they chose simply because they liked it.

An architect on filling a light-filled office with art, buying purely by eye, and the overlooked Singapore River painting he discovered on our marketplace.

A young couple shares about their first-ever artwork acquisition for their newly renovated BTO flat, their special encounter with the seller of the artwork, and the messaging behind the piece.

In our third instalment, we feature Christine Mak (Singaporean, b. 1957), known for her seamless blend of Chinese brush traditions with Western painting techniques. Her works, ranging from ink to collage and oil, bring a modern, light-hearted sensibility to familiar subjects, shaped by her training at NAFA and under Lingnan master Chao Shao-An.

In our second instalment, we feature the late Ardiyanto Pranata (Indonesian, 1944 - 2022), known for his slow-dyed, gradient batiks and abstract paintings inspired by cellular forms and nature. His legacy includes both innovative artworks and his generous mentorship of the Indonesian art scene in Jogjakarta.

In our first instalment, we feature the late Toya Lim Khoon Hock (Malaysian, 1943–2016), a pioneer of batik impressionism. Known for his lineless technique, his works captured rural Malaysian life with care and technical precision, challenging what batik could be.