Sotheby's Institute Of Art:
Singapore is a unique blend of the best of the modern world and rich cultures to deliver enriching experiences. It is a dynamic city where you will find a harmonious blend of culture, cuisine, arts and architecture. Singapore is an exciting cosmopolitan city embracing the cultures and finest of East and West.
As an international centre of art and culture, there are almost 200 visual arts companies in Singapore, which includes photographic societies, art galleries, art auctioneers and other visual arts related businesses. The visual arts scene has experienced tremendous growth and development since the colonial days. There were 537 visual arts exhibitions in 2003, compared with 150 a decade ago.
Today, besides the museums and art schools, the scene is enriched with numerous commercial galleries as well as non-profit art spaces like Sculpture Square and the Substation. Visual artists have also branched out from traditional 2- and 3-D artforms to embrace multi-disciplinary and new media works.
Singapore is a dynamic, cosmopolitan city bringing together both worlds of East and West, modern and ancient.
Accommodation
Singapore offers a wide variety of accommodation types to suit all budgets and preferences. The locals usually live in HDB flats or private flats like condominiums. Other accommodation types available are apartments, houses, serviced apartments, colonial black and white houses.
Library
The library is the leading specialist arts library in the region. Its collection covers a comprehensive range of the arts and includes books specifically chosen for use on the MAs in Art Business and Contemporary Art. Reference sources include dictionaries, encyclopaedias, directories and exhibition catalogues of local and foreign artists. Students also have access to 72 periodical titles of which MIT Press and Oxford journals are available online. Audio visual collection includes music CDs, CD-ROMs, Videos and DVDs. Books in the library are arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The National Library and its branch libraries use the same system.