{"id":863734,"date":"2026-08-19T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863734\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:28:09","slug":"my-art-is-nobodys-not-even-mine-artist-eko-nugroho-paints-murals-for-robertson-quay-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863734\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My art is nobody\u2019s, not even mine\u2019: Artist Eko Nugroho paints murals for Robertson Quay solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/street-artists-work-removed-by-smrt-raises-questions-about-artistic-creativity-expression-says-mp?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">overnight removal of street artist Marcus Pang\u2019s work<\/a> from a pavement outside Mountbatten MRT station in June raised questions about the country\u2019s tolerance for spontaneous art. But for Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho, transience is the point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In Yogyakarta, where he is based, it is common for artists to paint over one another\u2019s murals \u2013 like fighting, he says. Think of it as a competitive paint-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE \u2013 The overnight removal of street artist Marcus Pang\u2019s work from a pavement outside Mountbatten MRT station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-863734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}