STATE OF THE ARTS (Oct 3 to 9)   Performance artist Amanda Heng’s retrospective exhibition opened at the Singapore Art Museum, the second straight retrospective of a female Cultural Medallion recipient after Chng Seok Tin at NAFA. Meanwhile, another CM recipient, potter Iskandar Jalil, announced that his latest solo show, which opens this week, will also be his last. Festivals were in the news as more details on the Singapore Writers Festival were revealed (including a ghost storytelling session by taxi drivers), and the annual da:ns Festival and Archifest events also kicked off. The inaugural Museum Roundtable Awards were held, with The Intan, a Peranakan museum at Joo Chiat, The National Library and the Civil Defence Heritage Gallery bagging awards. Local pride galore as Singapore twins Dennis and Nigel Goh featured in the Vienna Boys Choir over the weekend; and it was announced that playwright Haresh Sharma was named Goldberg Master Playwright for 2011 at New York University’s Tisch School Of The Arts, where his play, Gemuk Girls, will get a reading at the end of the month. Finally, Kallang Theatre’s resident show Singapura, Lion City, also opened to the public.