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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.
- Directed by photographer Wing Shya, the first Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture, is an indie movie feast
- It’s a chance to see offbeat features, video art and themed short-film and moving-image compilations, and join workshops including one on printmaking
Readers discuss the solutions to the art precinct’s funding problems, legalising ride-hailing service Uber, and political divisions within the European far-right.
From the Serpenti Tubogas collection that celebrates nature, to making the thinnest watch, Bulgari stays at the forefront of innovative watchmaking and design
A multimedia art exhibition telling the stories of migrants to Hong Kong and their families at a gallery in Wong Chuk Hang features works from 18 artists and art collectives.
Jitsuko Katsumata, daughter of late Japanese manga master Fujiko F. Fujio, says father cherished ‘daily life’ inspiration in creating beloved characters.
American multimedia artist Bruce Nauman’s retrospective at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary features provocative work spanning six decades and many mediums. The curator admits ‘it is not an easy show’.
One was Scottish, the other American: Anna Hotchkis and Mary Mullikin were successful and intrepid artists who documented China in vivid paintings before World War II tore them apart.
Like creating the mandalas that help Hindus and Buddhists meditate, the painter’s act of applying repetitive techniques can put them in the ‘zone’, says Chun Poon, organiser of a show of Hong Kong art.
Filmmaker Jazzie Sillona has clocked nearly 500,000 Instagram followers with nostalgia-tinged images capturing the simple street scenes that define a city
Events designed to boost Hong Kong’s economy and tourism run the gamut from high fashion, art and architecture to sports, technology and business.
The two opening exhibitions at Koon Man Space, a former school turned communal arts space that focuses on photography, shine light on the ecology, culture and history of Hong Kong’s Chuen Lung village.
Beijing’s art market recently got a shot in the arm at its spring auctions from a new generation of collectors looking for a personal connection to art rather than an investment.
Fragile Beauty at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum features 300 photos from Elton John and David Furnish’s collection that cover seven decades and span fashion, celebrity and photojournalism.
Board chairman of arts hub’s managing body says government has until August to make decision, as remaining funds will only last a year.
Famous for his celebrity-packed chain of Chinese restaurants, 85-year-old Michael Chow talks about facing prejudice, and why he wants to be known as the world’s greatest living artist.
Do you want to buy art but don’t know where to start? We ask three Hong Kong gallerists to spell out the most important things to consider before you dip your toe in the market.
Hong Kong artist Mak2 takes a satirical swipe at her own industry with a zombie video game inviting viewers to shoot undead dealers and collectors, at her new solo exhibition at De Sarthe Gallery.
The Speagle’s is a solo exhibition of colourful paintings by Paul Hunter Speagle in which the US artist takes an unfiltered look at his home life. The show runs until June 1 at JPS Gallery in Hong Kong.
The painting by Vincent Namatjira depicted the mining magnate in shades of mottled pink with a double chin.
Affordable Art Fair designed to attract buyers on budget says it has seen increase in number of younger buyers on first day of show.
The Italian luxury streetwear brand kicked off the 60th Venice Biennale by opening its ambitious art and culture space, aiming to inspire the next generation
Some people used the live streaming public art installation to flash naked body parts and display images of New York’s Twin Towers burning on 9/11.
The painting by Jonathan Yeo depicts the British monarch in the bright red uniform of the Welsh Guards.
Chinese contemporary artist Bai Ming intends to show that Chinese art is still relevant in today’s world at a major retrospective of mostly ceramics at the National Museum of Modern Art in Rome.
The New York Met’s exhibition of Harlem Renaissance art features 160 works, most by black artists, that depict daily life in black communities such as Harlem from the 1920s to 1940s.
Surabaya and East Java have what it takes to ‘carve out an important art scene’ given the right conditions, says artist and activist Syska Liana.
Hauser & Wirth’s Elaine Kwok says that collecting should be more about passion than investment, while the Sunpride Foundation’s Patrick Sun advises doing your homework as well as buying what you love
They defaced ‘The Origin of the World’, a nude painted by French artist Gustave Courbet, and four other works at the Pompidou-Metz museum.
Kim Kardashian and Zendaya may have dominated the headlines at this year’s Met Gala, but one man was working harder than anyone behind the scenes – meet its Costume Institute curator in charge, Andrew Bolton
