Downtown Hong Kong is turning into an open air gallery. Sketches, installations, paintings and posters are starting to take over the highway occupied by protesters. People are using art to continue their peaceful movement, and it's changing the way the ...full story

Photos of Hong Kong's “umbrella movement” have ricocheted around the world. But artist Perry Dino has been capturing the drama in a more old-fashioned way, with oil color and brush. Beginning with an Aug. 31 rally, Dino has created eight canvases ...full story

A simple and flimsy tool, its use by protestors to protect themselves against the Hong Kong police's use of pepper spray and tear gas on Sept. 28 made it the symbol of the protests. Perhaps the most prominent artwork to have been created so far from ...full story

This year, it's billed as an “exhibition within an exhibition,” a toy show with booths for contemporary art. Now in its 11th year, Taipei Toy Festival (台北國際玩具創作大展) brings together about 200 designer-toy makers from Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong ...full story

While works of renowned artists like Tyeb Mehta, Hussain, Martin Francis Souza, Akbar Padamse were displayed in the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art section, art of Imperial India saw an important diamond-set and enamelled gold parade ...full story

While there were signs on Monday that Hong Kong's protests might be coming to a low ebb, their visual impact looks likely to last for a while. "This is the most well-designed protest in recent memory," says Colette Gaiter, an Associate Professor of Art ...full story

Like the works of art that surround them, Hong Kong's protests have taken on a dreamlike quality. But the demonstrators believe that all their efforts have been worthwhile nonetheless. “I think most of us know we won't win this time,” said Joyce Tang, ...full story

Singapore's decision to ban the public screening of a documentary that featured an interview with six political exiles has put the spotlight on how the country is regulating and even censoring the arts and entertainment industry. The film “To Singapore ...full story

From the horse paintings in Miami that honor the late Chinese artist Xu Beihong to the giant dancing water drops installed in Milan, the Hong Kong native Ma blended his passion for nature -using bold ideas of Chinese and Western techniques - in his ...full story

These artworks, are by their very nature temporary. If – or most likely when – the authorities move the protestors off the site, these vivid, attention-grabbing pieces will be consigned to the dustbin. What a tragedy that will be, for the centre of ...full story