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News and insight on trends in fine art, art auctions and leading artists
Hong Kong photographer John Fung, who died last month aged 70, made his name with his stark black-and-white shots of street life in the 1970s and ’80s. Friends remember Fung as a free spirit.
Song Huai-Kuei, better known as Madame Song, was an artist who helped Pierre Cardin enter China’s fashion market and held some of its first catwalk shows. A show opening in Hong Kong explains her achievements.
Now showing in Hong Kong, New York-based Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero reveals how his ‘magical’ church studio changed him and why his grandmother is such an important part of his work.
French luxury house Hermès emerges victorious from its US lawsuit, winning a permanent ban on the sales of artist Mason Rothschild’s ‘MetaBirkin’ NFTs that depict the iconic handbag
For decades Apo Wang-Od has practised the ancient art of ‘batok’, tattooing through hand-tapping using a lemon tree thorn and charcoal soot.
‘Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan)’ sold after a 10-minute bidding war between four art lovers at a Sotheby’s auction in London.
A Hong Kong Pride Month exhibition showcasing 50 years of Kitty Tsui’s work celebrates how the Asian-American LGBTQ pioneer became one of the most powerful voices of 20th-century queer culture.
Hard-partying Hong Kong photo artist Basil Pao talks about filming The Last Emperor, travelling with Monty Python’s Michael Palin, and his new book, a retrospective of his long career.
From record auction sales to TeamLab’s first installation in the city and those lovable giant rubber ducks, the city’s growing cultural landscape speaks volumes about Hongkongers’ lust for art
‘Faces of Gaia’ is an exhibition in Hong Kong of art inspired by nature, the ocean and the Earth goddess Gaia, and features work by artists Zoë Marden, Christine Nguyen, Katrina Raimann and Jessica Zoob.
The Sound Art Museum in the suburban artist village of Songzhuang, in China’s capital Beijing, has got off to a flying start with high-calibre exhibitions suitable for both children and adults.
Hong Kong artist Angela Su channels her 1960s activist alter ego in her latest show, in which a composition of journal entries about the Vietnam war and whimsical 3D shapes blurs the line between truth and fantasy.
Tourists, residents show up despite grey skies and sporadic rain to witness send-off for first of 18-metre duo brought to city for ‘The Double Ducks’ art show.
Shane Akeroyd has made his sizeable library of video art public, including films by Joan Jonas, Vvzela Kook and Wong Ping, in an attempt to make contemporary art more accessible.
The tracing of how a statue went from a Cambodian temple to a US Sotheby’s auction uncovered a vast smuggling network of stolen cultural artefacts that had been in operation for decades.
Hong Kong contemporary artist Tap Chan, who works in sculpture, installation and video, explains how philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s ‘The Poetics of Space’ changed her life.
The hedge fund, which filed for bankruptcy last year, sold the NFTs for US$10.9 million after buying them in 2021 for US$15.5 million worth of cryptocurrency.
Huang Yongyu, a self-taught painter who began producing art aged 14, was beloved in China for his ink paintings of animals. He had been preparing for his centennial exhibition next year when he died.
Christian Action’s Centre for Refugees will celebrate the resilience of Hong Kong refugees and asylum seekers with an event at PMQ, one of many this month to mark World Refugee Day 2023.
Yuz Museum, founded by Chinese-Indonesian businessman Budi Tek, has moved from Shanghai’s West Bund to the city’s outskirts. Tek’s daughter and museum director Justine Alexandria talks about the future.
Tourists and local fans snap shots of reunited duo, calling their return ‘pleasant surprise’.
Several Hong Kong art lovers made a recent trip to Midea’s headquarters in China because of the double appeal of a Roni Horn art retrospective held in the Tadao Ando-designed He Art Museum.
An eighty-something avant-garde pianist from New York giving a recital aboard a ferry crossing a Norwegian fjord was our introduction to the 2021 Momentum arts festival, which returns this year.
The bond between the creator of beloved boy reporter Tintin and a prominent Chinese artist was a meeting of great minds.
Hongkongers snap pictures of yellow 18-metre ducks being towed by boats past Tamar Park and Hong Kong Exhibition Centre.
12 years after closing, chef Ferran Adria is reopening El Bulli – repeatedly voted the “world’s best restaurant” before it closed in 2011 – as a museum in Spain.
The CEO and third-generation owner of Château Ducru-Beaucaillou talks about how he maintains the vineyard as a tribute to the past – but with an eye to the future