With Art Basel Miami Beach now in its tenth year, swissinfo.ch looks at the brand's expansion and how experts view the change. When Art Basel bought out Art HK two years ago, it injected into the fledging fair the Swiss management style and expertise ... full story
In a space 75 floors above Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, Art Basel Hong Kong attendees surveyed large canvases of one young artist's iconic works seamlessly blending into another young star's paintings for a mere four-hour exhibition. More than 40 ... full story
HONG KONG.- Sotheby's Hong Kong presents a stellar line-up of artistic events in the second half of 2013 as part of its 40th anniversary celebration of its presence in Asia this year. The programme starts with a selling exhibition as well as a non ... full story
Emily Parker, writing for The New Republic, explains why there is some truth to Edward Snowden's assertion that “Hong Kong has a strong tradition of free speech.” Demetria Lucas, at The Root, weighs in on an interactive art exhibit entitled, “You Can ... full story
On May 22, I headed to Hong Kong to perform, present, and premiere new work at a party held by Yana and Stephen Peel in honor of the panelists who debated "The Market Is The Best Judge of Art's Quality" presented by Intelligence Squared. The Panel ... full story
This episode also happens to be one of the few moments that he has his peepers open in our interview at Galerie Perrotin Hong Kong, where he's showing a set of new paintings in his Mr Dob series. For the record: like an analysand at a psychoanalytic ... full story
It's rare for art to make the headlines in Hong Kong, much less the front page. Yet in the past couple weeks, six larger-than-life art installations set up in West Kowloon and the arrival of Hong Kong's largest annual art fair have pushed it into the ... full story
When I heard that Art Basel was planning a fair in Hong Kong this year (or, rather, that parent company MCH had purchased, absorbed, and re-branded Art HK, a yearly event since 2007), I immediately booked tickets from Shanghai, excited to see what, if ... full story
But Art Basel Hong Kong was quieter in another sense. ART HK, which began during the 2008 financial crisis, had to fight to get noticed in a city where many people did not know what an art fair really was. It did so with mass publicity and by opening ... full story
Lately, it seems that there's always a new art fair somewhere and few inspire more than commentary about the ubiquity and excesses of this phenomenon. What's thrilling about the inaugural edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong, which took place from May 23 ... full story
