HONG KONG — Global auction house Sotheby's said Friday it's setting up a Chinese joint venture that will allow it to become the first foreign company to hold art sales in the world's biggest fine art market. The company said it signed a deal to set up ...full story

The artist known as “JR” was in Hong Kong on September 18 to promote his “Inside Out Project.” (http://www.insideoutproject.net/). Best known as the “photograffeur” who covered Brazil's Morro da Providencia favela in wall-sized images of women's eyes ...full story

The contemporary art gallery Studio Rouge, previously based in Shanghai, will open its new Hong Kong gallery on 22 September 2012. On the occasion, the gallery will organise a party and a preview of the exhibition “Ruby, Rowy, Rhino, Rock Hong Kong!”.full story

Their interests have gradually deviated from political symbols to artworks with cultural elements. Such a dramatic change in demand is apparent from the offerings seen in art showrooms, and perhaps more so at Sotheby's Hong Kong's contemporary Asian ...full story

So far, Hong Kong city administrators have green-lit HK$21.6 billion (US$2.8 billion) into the WKCD in the hopes of reshaping Hong Kong into “an integrated arts and cultural district with world-class arts and cultural facilities.” To ensure that the M+ ...full story

The authority's chief executive, Michael Lynch, said: "M+ will be the flagship visual arts venue for the West Kowloon Cultural District and for Hong Kong. It will provide essential space for the arts community, a world-class museum for the city, and a ...full story

French street artist JR has only been in town for a matter of days, but he's already establishing himself as, in his words, an "enemy" of the city. That's not because the 29-year-old is acting against the Hong Kong people, though: his target is the ...full story

I was looking out for feminists at “Dust from the Heart,” a new show at Hong Kong's Pearl Lam Gallery which opened on September 12. After all, the show presents the work of five of China's best women artists, an under-represented section of the art ...full story

A colonial-era structure, the barracks has been transformed into a S$9.76 milion (US$8 million) hub for contemporary arts, another step in a government-driven development of Singapore into an Asian arts hub. Meanwhile, Hong Kong's answer to arts and ...full story

Art adviser Jehan Chu of Vermillion Art Collections in Hong Kong says Mr. Liu's most sought-after paintings "are from the mid-to-late 1990s and feature nautical-themed cherubs posing against sweeping battleship or theater-themed backdrops." In November ...full story