Hin Bus Depot, Galerie Bao, Affordable Art Fair Singapore 2026 and Metropolitan Museum of Manila
How Long Have You Been Here?
Hoo Fan Chon, How Long Have You Been Here?, 2026, installation view at Hin Bus Depot.
The exhibition takes its title from a question that Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia often ask one another, a way of recognising that each has left home to work abroad. When asked by Malaysians, it can instead mark someone as an outsider. George Town-based artist Hoo Fan Chon developed the show from daily observation of the city’s Bangladeshi community. The works consider how aspiration shapes why people move and what they carry. The Learn the Language in 30 Days series comprises nine paintings of Bengali phrasebooks sold to workers bound for Malaysia, their covers enlarged and repainted in the style of Dhaka’s rickshaw painters. Also on view is the Oversized Floral Carrier series, three bags sewn from the flower-printed Korean blankets that Bangladeshi workers buy in Malaysia as homecoming gifts.
How Long Have You Been Here? is on view until 15 November 2026 at Hin Bus Depot, Penang, Malaysia. More information here.
What month is it now, darling?
Thủy Tiên Nguyễn, What month is it now, darling?, 2026, exhibition view at Galerie Bao, Paris, France. Photo by Amandine Lemaire. Image courtesy of Galerie Bao.
What month is it now, darling? is the first solo exhibition at Galerie Bao by Thủy Tiên Nguyễn, an artist based between Hanoi and Frankfurt am Main. The exhibition focuses on Paris By Night, the variety show launched in Paris by Thúy Nga, a Saigon record label whose founders settled in France after 1975. Made for Vietnamese refugees, the show later moved production to California. Its first 21 episodes are thought to have no behind-the-scenes documentation. Thủy Tiên starts from that gap, focusing on the stage sets, lighting and structures that produced the show’s glamour. Most of the works are glass sculptures displayed on motorised rotating tables. The artist calls the undocumented years a myth, and her turning glass stages give that myth a physical form.
What month is it now, darling? is on view until 21 November 2026 at Galerie Bao, Paris, France. More information here.
Affordable Art Fair Singapore
Affordable Art Fair Singapore 2025. Image courtesy of Affordable Art Fair Singapore.
Affordable Art Fair Singapore returns to the F1 Pit Building for its 19th edition, gathering 97 galleries from 20 countries. Asia leads with 80 galleries, and the rest travel from Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand. All works are priced under SGD15,000 and most cost less than SGD7,500. As AI-generated imagery prompts wider reflection on human creativity, the organisers review every submission for originality and limit editioned pieces to small runs. Advance tickets cost SGD24, or SGD19 for students and seniors over 60, until 22 November. Standard admission is SGD28.
Affordable Art Fair Singapore 2026 runs from 26 to 29 November 2026 at the F1 Pit Building, Singapore. Get tickets here.
Alfonso Ossorio: In My End is My Beginning
Alfonso Ossorio, Black and White, 1963, plastic and various materials on panel. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.
Curated by Patrick Flores, Alfonso Ossorio: In My End is My Beginning traces the career of an elusive Philippine-born artist who moved to the United States of America (USA) and befriended Jackson Pollock and other New York Abstract Expressionists. Drawn from the Lito and Kim Camacho Collection, the works range from Ossorio’s early drawings to his Congregation series. It is one of two exhibitions Flores has curated for the Metropolitan Museum of Manila’s 50th anniversary. The other, Miniaturismo to Modernism: Philippine Art from the 19th Century to the Sixties, traces the shift from academic realism to modernism and non-objective art. The anniversary celebrations run under the motto Art for All and include a fundraising gala at the museum on 7 November.
Alfonso Ossorio: In My End is My Beginning will be on view from 7 November 2026 to 30 May 2027 at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Taguig, Philippines.
