As announced in Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's latest policy address, each of Hong Kong's 18 district councils is to receive HK$100 million for special building projects. Since this includes public art projects, there is every reason to worry about ... full story
But they take place against a backdrop of falling sales totals for Chinese art; next week's estimates pale in comparison with Sotheby's record $447 million for a series of auctions in Hong Kong set in April 2011. At Christie's in Hong Kong, sales also ... full story
Collectors, dealers, auction houses, and academics will participate in a dialogue on the role of Hong Kong on the globalization of Chinese art collecting in the 20th-21st centuries. In addition to the city's favorable free port status for the exchange ... full story
More than half of the participating galleries at Art Basel Hong Kong are based in Asia. Speaking at a news conference in Beijing Tuesday, Marc Spiegler, the director of Art Basel, was confident that the fair's Hong Kong edition will prove successful ... full story
At the same time, Poly Auction Hong Kong announced the grand opening of its newly-constructed Poly Gallery. Located at 7/F of One Pacific Place, the spacious and state-of-the-art Gallery will regularly host various exhibitions, lectures and other art ... full story
The New York dealer Lehmann Maupin will be the latest high-wattage international arrival on Hong Kong's gallery scene when its Rem Koolhaas-designed space in the city's financial district opens on 14 March, bringing the likes of Tracey Emin, Lee Bul ... full story
New York's Lehmann Maupin gallery opens today in Hong Kong's historic Pedder Building, with a new space designed by Rem Koolhaas and his practice OMA. Courtesy: OMA/Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong. Photography: Philippe Ruault ... full story
HONG KONG.- Sotheby's Hong Kong will hold its Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale 2013 on 5 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, following the sale of private collection of You Are Not Alone - Yoshitomo Nara Works from the ... full story
From 23 to 26 May, the first Hong Kong edition of the Bank Art Fair will take place. The event, created by Dong Myeong Kim, a Korean entrepreneur, started first in Korea and then in China and Singapore. The core of the fair features European and Asian ... full story
Lehmann will occupy the pre-war Pedder Building, along with fellow New York gallery Gagosian, which opened in Hong Kong in 2011, and joins London's White Cube and Paris's Galerie Perrotin, which opened its first Asian branch in the former British ... full story
