Is Hong Kong Still Asia’s Art Hub? Yes, Says Art Basel’s New Hong Kong Director

Oliver GilesMarch 14, 2023

When Angelle Siyang-Le moved to Hong Kong from Dubai in November 2012, the taxi driver who picked her up at the airport told her that she’d come to the wrong place. “He asked me what I was doing in Hong Kong and I said that I work in the art industry,” Siyang-Le recalls. “He said […]...

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Yayoi Kusama’s Art of Healing

Christopher DewolfOctober 27, 2022

Yayoi Kusama’s extraordinarily long and complex career has been a constant process of healing and connection...

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M+ Cinema Offers a Haven for Hong Kong Film, Video and Art

Elizabeth KerrJune 8, 2022

Moving image finally gets a permanent home in Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture...

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Hong Kong’s Industrial Objects: Red Market Lamps

Christopher DewolfJune 2, 2022

Red plastic lampshades are ubiquitous on Hong Kong's streets – and they've become a symbol of the city itself...

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Is Art More Meaningful When It’s In Public?

Christopher DewolfMay 20, 2022

Art Basel Hong Kong is marking its 10th anniversary in a city whose approach to public art has been transformed...

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The Space Between: Zao Wou-Ki’s Life and Work

Ilaria Maria SalaApril 13, 2022

Few artists were able to bridge Western and Chinese traditions as much as Zao Wou-Ki, whose visit to Hong Kong changed his life....

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Hong Kong’s Skyline Icons: M+, the Museum Made to Order

Christopher DewolfDecember 17, 2021

M+ is finally open, and it enjoys a rare position among world institutions: a massive new building designed in collaboration with its own curators ...

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Inside the Art Collection William and Lavina Lim Are Donating to M+

Christopher DewolfJanuary 29, 2021

An important collection of art will soon find new life at M+....

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What the M+ Archigram Archive Means for Hong Kong

Christopher DewolfNovember 26, 2020

Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture is beginning to explore the archive of an influential British architecture collective....

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Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part X: How Plastic Flowers Built a Global Metropolis

Christopher DewolfJanuary 16, 2020

Hong Kong once made plastic products that were shipped around the world. What's left of that history?...

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What’s Happening With M+? An Update on Hong Kong’s Museum of Visual Culture

Christopher DewolfNovember 6, 2019

A museum with global ambitions is finally on track to open in Hong Kong. ...

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Can Art Truly Thrive in Hyper-Commercial Hong Kong?

Sarah KaracsMarch 29, 2018

With a spate of new galleries, museums and other art spaces opening, what does the future hold for Hong Kong art in Hong Kong?...

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Ambivalence and Dissonance in Four Zany Rooms: Samson Young’s Songs for Disaster Relief at M+

Sarah KaracsFebruary 14, 2018

Hong Kong artist Samson Young’s multi-sensory mind map is as strange as it is brilliant. ...

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Hong Kong, 20 Years After the Handover, Part II: Uncharted Territory

Sarah KaracsJuly 18, 2017

A new series from Penguin Books takes the pulse of Hong Kong 20 years after the handover. For Magnus Renfrew, that means a concise look at the city's potential as an art capital....

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Wilson Shieh’s Gender-Bending Skyscraper Women

Sarah KaracsApril 26, 2017

Renowned for his cheeky ink paintings, Wilson Shieh uses a venerable Chinese form of art to comment on contemporary Hong Kong....

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How a Rice Cooker Found Its Way Into M+ Museum’s Important New Design Collection

Christopher DewolfDecember 8, 2016

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....

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