Hong Kong-based Portuguese artist João Vasco Paiva finds his practice in some of the city's most obscure spaces. Edmund Lee meets him at his studio. Portrait by Calvin Sit. It's just as well that the Hong Kong art scene is claiming João Vasco Paiva as ...full story
A distorted life-sized taxi, a symphony of sounds made by MTR turnstiles, five women dressed up as Hong Kong's five tallest buildings. These are just a few of the Hong Kong-inspired contemporary art pieces at an exhibition that opens today. The Hong ...full story
HONG KONG.- Ravenel's Modern and Contemporary Art Auctions 2013 will be held at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong (Grand Ballroom) on 26 May, and at Taipei Fubon National Conference Center on 2 Jun. The two auctions will present more than 190 ...full story
This week in the world of truly hilarious art news, a giant inflatable poop installation created by Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy recently met its demise in Hong Kong. According to the South China Morning Post, sudden downpour deflated the oversized ...full story
It requires the "high art" of conciliation: the ability to rise above conflicts so as to put things into action. The irony in the misinformed view that art and politics don't mix is that, in Hong Kong, "art" in politics is indeed sadly wanting ...full story
Renfrew has always been a firm believer that Hong Kong is the natural home for a major international art fair. “We are geographically positioned at the heart of Asia and we are the region's financial center,” he notes. “There is no tax on the import or ...full story
exhibition, with six giant inflatable sculptures, opened to the public in the West Kowloon cultural district in Hong Kong Thursday. Here, a worker was seen through the sculpture 'Poetic Cosmos of the Breath' by Argentina-born artist Tomas Saraceno.10 Things to See: A week of top AP photosCharleston Gazettefull story
The last thing we need in Hong Kong, particularly given the sensitivities of "one country, two systems" is some self-appointed culture tsar telling us what is and isn't art. There is in Chan's comments an interesting irony in that for the communist ...full story
Described as a 'cultural desert' by author Wang Meng in the 80s, there's no denying there's been a huge wind of change in Hong Kong's art scene over the past couple of decades. With galleries popping up in the hippest parts of town and now the new-look ...full story
Sigg donated 1,463 works by 350 artists valued at HK$1.3 billion. M+ also paid HK$177 million for another 47 of his works. The collection, created after China began its economic reforms 35 years ago, includes dissident artist Ai Weiwei's photography ...full story
