British-Filipino artist Pio Abad reflects on neoliberalism and globalisation with a new work that includes 100 replicas of Margaret Thatcher's infamous handbag.
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That art districts emerge out of industrial corners of a city is not an unusual phenomenon. Drawn to the large spaces, low rents and high ceilings of disused factories and manufacturing high rises, galleries and artists pile in and, over time, make an otherwise culturally-barren locality their own. That is as much the story of […]...
As he unveils a new internet-connected water installation at Pacific Place, German artist Julius Popp explains why he works with technology that stresses him out....
Before she actually completed any buildings, Zaha Hadid was busy making them explode. When the Iraqi-born architect was first getting started in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she worked obsessively on concepts that tore apart architectural conventions. Instead of anodyne renderings, she painted her buildings as abstractions – sometimes in a state of disassembly or collapse. That […]...
With ethereal images of junk boats next to street scenes from a time of mass migration, Werner Bischof offers a window into the Hong Kong of the 1950s. ...
Visiting Hong Kong for her first solo exhibition here, renowned artist Liza Lou finds solace in a frenetic world by embracing beauty one bead at a time. ...
M+ Museum's inaugural design exhibition, Shifting Objectives, is a window into curator Aric Chen's efforts to build a design collection that bridges the mundane and the extraordinary....
Clockenflap has built up its credentials as a world-class music festival, but co-founder Jay Forster hopes to make its arts component just as relevant....
