By WSJ Staff Sotheby's Hong Kong spring auctions continue with a collection of contemporary Asian art, including paintings from Chinese artists Liu Ye and Zhang Xiaogang, sculptures, multi-media installations and more. Sotheby's begins its jewels and ... full story
Guy Ullens will auction off 106 works of contemporary Chinese art at Sotheby's in Hong Kong Sunday, including many that might be considered more historically profound or fetch a higher price than “Great Criticism Series: President” by Wang Guangyi. ... full story
One of his assistants told the BBC he had been held by border guards as he tried to get on a flight to Hong Kong. She says police have searched his Beijing home, which is also his studio. More than 20 dissidents and activists have been held in the past ... full story
By contrast, Christie's and Sotheby's 2010 Hong Kong sales totaled $722 million and $685 million respectively. Chinese furniture and decorative arts are also realizing record prices at auction, often outstripping pre-sale auction estimates by orders of ... full story
All this augurs well for the upcoming sales of Chinese art at Sotheby's Hong Kong, which start on April 1 and include the quite exceptional Meiyintang group of Imperial porcelains. Expect more fireworks. The Mexican government has branded a monumental ... full story
The show will travel after April 1 to a convention center in Hong Kong where they will be auctioned off (by Sotheby's no less!) to raise money for the environmental group. Joanne Ooi, who is the CEO of Clean Air Network says, “Art is a popular and ... full story
Ms. Ooi, who also owns an art gallery in Hong Kong and was formerly creative director of Shanghai Tang, says: “The project allowed us to mobilize the entire Hong Kong visual-arts community. I personally met with most of the Hong Kong artists involved ... full story
By BETTINA WASSENER HONG KONG — A leading anti-pollution campaign group in Hong Kong is deploying a new weapon in the fight for clean air in this Asian financial hub: art. A pair of gray lungs standing 83 centimeters, or 32 inches, tall, crafted by ... full story
His early large works from the 1950s and 1960s are rare and this is what makes the current show at the just-opened de Sarthe Fine Art gallery in Hong Kong — “Zao Wou-ki Paintings: 1950s-1960s” — stand out. The exhibit began Friday and runs through ... full story
While a lot of attention has been paid to the recent success of Sotheby's and Christie's in Hong Kong, China's homegrown market leaders, China Guardian and Poly Auctions, have been flying under the radar. Both these houses clocked up record results in ... full story
