By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Asian art market juggernaut showed signs of weakness on Monday in Sotheby's sales of Chinese 20th century and Asian contemporary art as global stock markets plunged on a darkening global economic outlook. ... full story
"It'll be the same in New York. The top lots will fetch crazy prices and the average ones will sell poorly," said Edouard Malingue, an Asian art dealer. "If you focus on medium quality, mediocre quality then I would be worried," added Malingue. ... full story
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- A marathon of competitive bidding by collectors of Chinese artworks pushed a Hong Kong auction to more than three times its estimate. Sotheby's biggest Chinese fine-painting sale ended last night after almost ... full story
Another one of the firm's mobile apps ties into the 39th Hong Kong Art Festival. Dubbed 'Hong Kong Art Festival on the Go', the app is simple but allows 15 people to plan when and what to see during the event and users to share their planners to ... full story
The fair scene in Hong Kong is dominated by the modern and contemporary art fair which has just been sold to Art Basel, but there is another that has been going for seven years now: Fine Art Asia. It is organised by a Hong Kong dealer, Andy Hei, ... full story
Sep 30, 2011 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Hong Kong will forge closer ties with Russia through the deepening of bilateral co-operation in the fields of culture and art, Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-sing said during a meeting with senior ... full story
The Hong Kong Heritage Museum is is well worth half a day of your time, while the Museum of Coastal Defence is one of Hong Kong's most underrated tourist attractions. Also in our top five museums is the Hong Kong Museum of Art, but is it really worth a ... full story
We also have interest in some of the few works remaining including a museum, which I am quite pleased with, said Mary Dinaburg of Fortune Cookie Projects, which organized the exhibition that featured artists from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, ... full story
The 58000-sq ft venue signals serious empire-building, reflected also in the gallery's plans to open a space in Hong Kong in 2012, its first overseas enterprise. The art world is increasingly looking to China as the promised land but China's trade ... full story
Hong Kong (HKSAR) - Hong Kong and Russia have pledged to work more closely in the field of culture and art with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cultural co-operation today (September 26, Moscow time). ... full story
