“People say the future is China,” Arne Glimcher, the patriarch of New York's Pace Gallery and a veritable force majeur on the international art scene, told Art Info's Madeline O'Dea last week, at the close of the Hong Kong Art Fair. ... full story
The Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison compound will be transformed into an art museum. By Judd Tully HONG KONG— In bustling Hong Kong, a nexus of wealth and power is making waves, with a much expanded Hong Kong Art Fair ... full story
HONG KONG — The Hong Kong International Art Fair ended this week with a record 63500 visitors and top sales driven in part by wealthy Chinese buyers. Works at "Love the Future" included photographs by Bobby Sham of people with ... full story
Renowned Singaporean nude photographer Marcus Mok is hoping to push the boundaries of the Hong Kong art scene. Born and brought up in the Lion City - where publishing nude pictures is prohibited - Mok stunned the conservative majority two years ago ... full story
(RTTNews) - Peter Blake, the artist behind the legendary cover art for the Beatles' iconic album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, says he has never received the recognition he deserves. During a recent interview with TimeOut Hong Kong, ... full story
According to Arthur Solway, who heads the Shanghai branch of the James Cohan Gallery, "We are building a broad market here -- we are definitely getting people interested in Western art." Hong Kong has very few galleries and no well-regarded ... full story
Christie's, which competes with fellow auction goliath Sotheby's in the global art space, sold about $5 billion worth of art globally in 2010, with Hong Kong accounting for around 20 percent of the total, below New York and London, which pulled in the ... full story
By Madeleine O'Dea, ARTINFO China HONG KONG—The caravan may have moved on to Venice, but Hong Kong locals are confident that the Harbor City's parties in honor of ART HK 2011 last week will linger in the memory of the nomads of the art scene. ... full story
The Hong Kong Auctions catalog values them at $1000 to $3000. Hong Kong Auctions New York sale of paintings on Sunday, June 12 begins at 11:00 am in the gallery. The session of antiquities and vintage ceramics, bronzes, jades and works of art begins at ... full story
Christie's sales of 20th-century and contemporary Asian art in Hong Kong Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon took in more than 761 million Hong Kong dollars (US$98 million). The Saturday take was HK$484 million, double the presale ... full story
