30 (Xinhuanet) – 2011 was a year of blockbuster art shows and rising Chinese power in the art world. As The Hong Kong Art Fair landed in May, news broke that China had become the world's second biggest art market - racking up almost 8.3 billion dollars ...full story
All Gagosian's 11 galleries, from London to Hong Kong, will be filled with Hirst Spot paintings in January. This dotty explosion is a mere aperitif to Tate Modern's retrospective in April. How much of what he's done over the last quarter decade really ...full story
In January, 300 of the 1400 produced so far will be shown across the world in all 11 Gagosian galleries, from New York to California, London, Rome, Paris, Athens and Hong Kong. It's the art equivalent of saturation bombing, a tactic employed to stifle ...full story
For the Hong Kong-based artist's first solo project in Thailand, Number 1 Gallery will present an ambitious architecturally inspired drawing installation. Number 1 Gallery, Silom Galleria B1, 919/1 Silom Rd Soi 19. +66 (0)2 630 3381. ...full story
... away from the relative chaos of markets and instead amassing massive collections of Eastern art. Reuters notes that Asian art market turnover jumped 300 percent between 2009 and 2010, buoyed in large party by an emphasis on Hong Kong collectors.and more »full story
That drive has brought investments in art into the mainstream, according to one art collector and historian whose own passion for art appears to be part of an Asian trend. Reuters reported that Kai-Yin Lo, a Cambridge-educated Hong Kong writer and ...full story
Owners of Hong Kong's art galleries, many of them crammed along the winding Hollywood Road in the Central district, say timing is the key. "If you get good works of art, then without any question it is (a safe haven) but it doesn't have the liquidity. ...full story
Para/Site is Hong Kong's pre-eminent independent art space, and the recent appointment of Costinas, an internationally respected writer and critic and the outgoing curator of BAK (the Basis voor Actuele Kunst) in Utrecht, signals a new period of growth ...full story
Owners of Hong Kong's art galleries, many of them crammed along the winding Hollywood Road in the Central district, say timing is the key. "If you get good works of art, then without any question it is (a safe haven) but it doesn't have the liquidity. ...full story
By Payal Uttam 19 December, 2011 Hong Kongers are a tough crowd. Every second person I meet protests that we have no real art scene and pronounces the city barren of creativity. But, come on. In recent years, the Hong Kong gallery scene has evolved ...full story
