Approval for Shanghai to open the mainland's first free-trade zone, widely considered a fresh threat to Hong Kong's position as a leading financial centre, may also be a big threat to Hong Kong in its growing competition with Shanghai for Asia's art ...full story
At least four groups of cultural organisations, local and overseas, are vying to be in charge of the heritage and contemporary art programmes at the historic Central Police Station. But some of those interested are sceptical about the operation of the ...full story
The Pritzker Prize-winning architectural team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has been chosen to design a $642 million museum for modern and contemporary art known as M+ in Hong Kong, according to Bloomberg News. The design, an inverted ...full story
Hong Kong's M+, the long-awaited art museum to be built in the city's West Kowloon Cultural District, officially has an architecture team. The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design the museum, along with the London-Hong Kong firm ...full story
HONG KONG- Hong Kong is not a haven for art despite playing recently host for Art Basel Hong Kong, the Asian pendant of the Europe-based Art Exhibition , probably the largest international event for selling and buying art in Europe and now in Asia.full story
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have beaten rival studios Renzo Piano and Toyo Ito to design a HK$4.98 billion ($642 million) Asian modern- and contemporary-art museum. Known as M+, the building is scheduled for completion in 2017 and will ...full story
Hong Kong - meet M+. Yes, we know you've been flirting with each other for quite a while - occasionally threatening to hook up and make it official - but finally, we're confident that this will be the moment that finally makes it official. When you ...full story
Directors from all over the world have attempted to capture by lens this pivotal period in Chinese art history. Beginning in May, and running through August, the Asia Society Hong Kong Center will screen two Chinese arts documentaries each month at the ...full story
There is a glaring, disheartening problem for artists in Hong Kong: art requires space, and space is expensive. These two associated issues seem to be at the heart of what prevents many local artists from developing their craft, or even becoming ...full story
A large exhibit dedicated to kung fu master Bruce Lee will open at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum on July 20, the 40th anniversary of Lee's death, according to Hong Kong-based newspaper Ming Pao. The exhibit titled "Bruce Lee: Kung Fu ‧ Art ‧ Life" is ...full story