His graffiti once plastered Hong Kong, dense black ink calligraphy applied with a brush to any public surface, telling the outlandish story of why he believed the territory belonged to him. The self-declared “King of Kowloon”, Tsang Tsou-choi, lived in ...full story

Hong Kong's arts community is now fighting to preserve the vestiges of his public work. "The King's work belongs to the street, but most of it has already vanished or been cleaned up," says photographer Simon Go, who was a friend of Tsang's and runs ...full story

Though it is traditionally known as finance hub, Hong Kong has also emerged as a world-class center for contemporary art. The city held six art fairs in 2012, including the renowned Art HK, and this year sees the launch of the inaugural Art Basel Hong ...full story

HONG KONG — Zao Wou-ki, one of the few Chinese-born painters to be considered a master of 20th-century modern art in the West, died at his home in Switzerland on Tuesday. He was 92. His death was reported by the French news media and confirmed by ...full story

Art dealer Daphne King of Alisan Fine Arts, one of the first galleries to exhibit Zao's art works in Hong Kong in 1993, said Zao was among a generation of Chinese artists studying in the West. On graduating from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in ...full story

Art HK, the annual art fair founded in 2007, becomes Art Basel in Hong Kong starting this year. The Swiss company behind Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach took a 60percent stake in Art HK organizer Asian Art Fairs in 2011. The deal represents a vote ...full story

Shanghai is threatening to steal a march on Hong Kong's art market by allowing a leading global auction house to conduct its business there. Christie's yesterday said it planned to hold an auction this autumn in Shanghai, after Beijing granted it a ...full story

When Salvador Dalí's surrealism meets Andy Warhol's pop art the result could be catastrophic — a whirlwind of colour and madness on a canvas is what one might expect. Hong Kong-based artist MoShah proved this wrong at the opening of the artist's first ...full story

The decorum of this group exhibition at Para/Site Art Space, which seeks to capture the tension surrounding art's uncertain intersection with the present, is austerely minimal. If there are beauty and poetry to be found from this selection of films ...full story

It's 2 p.m. on a Saturday. A crowd of people swarms Gloucester Road as a racket emanates from the windows of a Hong Kong police station. I'm in a 2-by-2 1/2-metre concrete cell along with five other people. At one end is a latrine; at the other ...full story