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Busy agenda packs Art Basel, a cultural summit, global investors’ symposium and pop-culture festival into one week, soon to be followed by the Rugby Sevens.
East Kowloon Cultural Centre show of white flowers touched up after being mocked as having a ‘funeral vibe’ ahead of tomb-sweeping season in April.
Having lived in Hong Kong from the 1990s until recently, our columnist shares his collection of paintings gathered during his time in a city often derisively referred to as a cultural desert.
Without Hong Kong’s thriving entertainment industry and open culture, the genius and creativity of the literary giant and his martial arts epics would have no chance to shine.
While Hong Kong’s creative industries are not quite the ‘Oriental Hollywood’ they once were, it is important to invest in this key economic pillar and foster cultural identity.
China’s art market remains far larger and more extensive than India’s, but the Indian results highlight the country’s growing wealth and confidence.
‘Art became an auto-generated aesthetic that pushed the artist out of the project,’ notes the Lumiere Project’s Patrice Poujol, whose film company’s NFTs emphasise ‘real access and real experiences’
In a show staged by Italian luxury brand Tod’s on the eve of the 60th Venice Biennale, ‘The Art of Craftsmanship’, master artisans recreated the label’s classic loafer shoe using their chosen craft.
Ahead of the US$32 million sale of a Gustav Klimt portrait unseen for 100 years, a claimant to its ownership, reportedly a potential heir to the legal successor of its original owner, came forward.
Wong Sai-kit has an intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. He is also an artist whose bold, colourful work – much of it created using spoons – is on show at a Hong Kong hotel.
Hong Kong artist Trevor Yeung’s aquarium installations at the Venice Biennale are devoid of fish. Post Magazine finds out why.
A new Hong Kong exhibition at Gate33 in Kai Tak’s Airside uses typography to explore the built environments, communities and culture of Wong Tai Sin, San Po Kong, Kowloon City and To Kwa Wan.
The intensely coloured Portrait of Fraulein Lieser is one of the last works by the Austrian modernist artist.
A landmark new exhibition in South Korea revisits ancient East Asian Buddhist art from Korea, China and Japan through the lens of gender, highlighting the influence women have had throughout history.
The super tall Perth native has no public social media accounts and loves spending time on his family’s ranch in Wyoming – which his glamorous husband likes to show up to in ‘fabulous Westernwear’
According to one culture official, the New Cathedral of Coimbra, in Portugal, served as the model for Macau’s Church of St Paul – of which only the facade remains, following a fire in 1835.
Chinese illustrator Carina Zhang has already used her art to help traumatised children. Now focusing on becoming a psychotherapist, she wants to teach creative skills to disadvantaged groups.
In Hong Kong, watching a film from a mile away has become another new normal – thanks to the M+ museum’s massive LED screen beaming out across Victoria Harbour every night
Koo Jeong-a, who was photographed for Loewe’s autumn/winter 2023 campaign and is the artist behind South Korea’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, talks about the process behind her ‘Odorama Cities’.
His work was shown in his 2-day exhibition ‘Pack a Punch’ in Miami Design District in April, and his works are in Stella McCartney and Donatella Versace’s collections
The carmaker’s i7 car appeared at the show in collaboration with an AI-driven experience by artist Alex Israel – just the latest in the brand’s creative tie-ups that have even involved Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein
Everything from songs penned by AI to augmented reality exhibitions come under art tech umbrella, which curators hope will catch eye of young people.
Hong Kong artist Kingsley Ng is asking pet owners to donate their animals’ fur so it can be made into giant balls for his exhibition at the Centre for Heritage Arts and Textile at The Mills in Tsuen Wan.
Noh Jae-myung, 33, has already amassed nearly 300 artworks by emerging artists. He talks about launching a new art fair, called Art OnO, in Seoul, with booths significantly cheaper than usual.
Hong Kong human rights lawyer and charity founder Patricia Ho explains how The Dive, by New Zealand-born Veronica Green, continues to empower her years after she fell in love with it at an art fair.
A Hong Kong musical promoting marine conservation and decrying shark’s fin soup, Shark Symphony is a mix of arts: throat singing, contortionism, acrobatics and belly dancing, backed by an orchestra.
What have a London gay cruising hotspot and Hong Kong’s sacred Lam Tseun Wishing Tree got in common? Get down to artist Trevor Yeung’s ‘Soft Breath’ art exhibition at Para Site to find out.
An “invisible” artist in China who paints himself, chameleon-like, into natural backgrounds to promote environmentalism has become a hit on mainland social media.
In collaboration with the French National Library, Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture is hosting an exhibition of 280 powerful black-and-white photos, its first show dedicated to the medium.
Tai Kwun is an unrivalled heritage art space, TeamLab: Continuous and Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck transformed Victoria Harbour, while the West Kowloon waterfront has hosted anthropomorphic grapes
In this age of Google Earth and GPS, people still buy globes – they help us ‘find our place in the cosmos’, one maker says, adding that countries can be very sensitive about their territory’s depiction.
The 2,000-year-old paintings inspired by the Trojan War were found during excavations at the Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, which was submerged by volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.
Organisers of the Art021 Hong Kong fair are inviting selected gallery owners from China, the Middle East and other nations in the Global South to increase exposure to their artists’ ‘exceptional’ art.
Sphere, in Las Vegas, uses millions of LEDs to create images that bring art to the masses. One of the multibillion-dollar venue’s creative leads talks about what goes into making the visuals.