January may be quiet elsewhere, but not in Singapore. Now in its 14th year, the Singapore Art Week (SAW) (January 22–31) energizes the city-state with more than 100 events across fairs, exhibitions.

Inside his studio in an alley in Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar, sculptor Michael Salai Soe Aung is busy making Christian statues for a living. Different-sized statues of the Virgin Mary ...