“South Carolina is the New York of the South…with beaches…I like the town and there is a strong undiscovered artistic community from music to art,” said Dash to AllHipHop. The galleries will be part of Dame's DD 172 organization, and will "support ...full story
The exhibition was curated by Singaporean art historian Eugene Tan and Connie Lam Suk-yee, one of the centre's executive directors. It featured work by nine Asian artists, including Leung Mee-ping from Hong Kong, Takahiro Iwasaki from Japan and Liu ...full story
Its rich permanent collections are divided into five departments: Chinese antiquities, Chinese fine art, Hong Kong art, historical paintings and the Xubaizhai Collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy. The historical collection of the museum was ...full story
Hong Kong-born Thom will team up with fellow architect Ronald Lu to design the Xiqu Centre, a new facility devoted to the traditional performing art of Chinese opera, which combines singing, acting, martial arts, dance and percussion and stringed ...full story
As such, Malhotra was happy to see investors take an interest in the work coming out of Asian countries; however, news that Hong Kong is emerging as a leader in the global art scene, and that speculators are moving on and prices for art pieces are ...full story
In the interim, ArtTactic is carefully monitoring auction results in Beijing and Hong Kong. The deterioration in sentiment follows controversy surrounding listed Chinese art funds, currently valued at $900m. The funds are listed on 20 specialist ...full story
... academic than one of Hong Kong's hottest artists. "It just naturally extended into school activities and then a profession." From his start drawing on walls, Abbas has become a prolific, exacting craftsman and an influential presence in Hong Kong's ...full story
However, London is now hosting not one but two shows of Hong Kong artists. Just opened at the Saatchi Gallery is Hong Kong Eye (until January 12), an exhibition of contemporary art curated by the leading academic and dealer Johnson Chang (Chang ...full story
China now makes up 30% of the world's art transactions by value. China's collectors used to be obliged to travel to Christie's and Sotheby's in Hong Kong. Now, top Chinese works are being sold in mainland China. "The best works used to all go to Hong ...full story
An exhibition named Hong Kong Eye brought together some 30 contemporary art works by 18 budding artists to the Saatchi Gallery, which will run from Wednesday to January 12 next year. "This is the first major collective show of contemporary Hong Kong ...full story