It’s that time of the year again. And our new Cultural Medallionites are (drum roll please -- not) composer Liang Wern Fook, poet/novelist Suratman Markasan and performance artist Amanda Heng. Woot. Chalk one up for the performance art team ya? Amanda’s only the second one to receive it after Lee Wen in 2005. It could’ve been three but Tang Da Wu had previously said thanks but no thanks. As for our Young Artist Awardees. They are (drum roll please – not) indie film-maker Sun Koh, poet Toh Hsien Min, video artist/theatre director Choy Ka Fai, photographer Robert Zhao Renhui and comic book artist Sonny Liew. Woot. Imagine that. A comic book artist. Although strangely enough, he’s getting it as “literary arts” dude – never mind that aside from the graphic novels/comic books stuff, he’s also had a couple of solo exhibitions. But no complaints from me. I like both his personal stuff and what he’s doing for the comics scene here. His project Liquid City, a graphic novel anthology of South-East Asian comics, is now into its second volume. Again, congratulations to everyone!   ***   Meanwhile, on the art fair front, ART Singapore has released its figures for last week’s run. Their 10th year sold around $6 million, drew 12,000 folks that sold over a thousand works. (Hmmm, really? Maybe they all went on Sunday and Monday. Because I didn’t see a lot of people on Saturday. But then again, maybe I missed them all.) But anyway, congratulations to you guys too! And yeah, I did find a couple of nice interesting stuff when I went back that day.