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Busy agenda packs Art Basel, a cultural summit, global investors’ symposium and pop-culture festival into one week, soon to be followed by the Rugby Sevens.
East Kowloon Cultural Centre show of white flowers touched up after being mocked as having a ‘funeral vibe’ ahead of tomb-sweeping season in April.
Having lived in Hong Kong from the 1990s until recently, our columnist shares his collection of paintings gathered during his time in a city often derisively referred to as a cultural desert.
Without Hong Kong’s thriving entertainment industry and open culture, the genius and creativity of the literary giant and his martial arts epics would have no chance to shine.
Surabaya and East Java have what it takes to ‘carve out an important art scene’ given the right conditions, says artist and activist Syska Liana.
Hauser & Wirth’s Elaine Kwok says that collecting should be more about passion than investment, while the Sunpride Foundation’s Patrick Sun advises doing your homework as well as buying what you love
They defaced ‘The Origin of the World’, a nude painted by French artist Gustave Courbet, and four other works at the Pompidou-Metz museum.
Kim Kardashian and Zendaya may have dominated the headlines at this year’s Met Gala, but one man was working harder than anyone behind the scenes – meet its Costume Institute curator in charge, Andrew Bolton
Hong Kong contemporary artist Wong Kit-yi reveals how a residency with legendary minimalist Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation taught her the importance of challenging herself.
Byzantine icons on whose golden backgrounds are painted scenes from social media. A response to a Caravaggio altarpiece about mercy. Chinese artist Yu Hong appropriates religious imagery for her art.
Leisure and Cultural Services Department also says visitors will no longer need to preregister to access installation from Wednesday.
Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas fair is a shot in the arm for Taiwan’s collector-driven art scene, with this year’s event inspiring other art institutions to coordinate for the island’s first ‘art week’.
Graffiti by the self-proclaimed “King of Kowloon”, who died in 2007 at the age of 85, used to be considered vandalism and was covered and painted over. Now a new generation of visual artists is taking inspiration from Tsang’s work.
Chat art museum at The Mills in Hong Kong celebrates its fifth anniversary with ‘Factory of Tomorrow’, an exhibition of works made with textiles that chart the city’s evolution and imagine its future.
Chanel’s cruise 2024-25 show in Marseille reflected the seaside vibes of the French Mediterranean city – take a look at the highlights of its customer-friendly collection
Her brand L’Dezen was one of the first jewellery companies to incorporate NFTs, enabling customers to assume both physical and digital ownership of pieces – but these days Shah is more interested in AI
Austrian artist Andreas Joska-Sutanto has been cutting up Hitler’s Mein Kampf letter by letter for the past eight years and recycling them to make a cookbook, with recipes for pizza, tiramisu and other dishes.
The Post’s arts editor Enid Tsui reports back from opening week at the Venice Biennale 2024 with the pavilions, exhibitions, artists and performances that stood out for her.
China’s art market remains far larger and more extensive than India’s, but the Indian results highlight the country’s growing wealth and confidence.
‘Art became an auto-generated aesthetic that pushed the artist out of the project,’ notes the Lumiere Project’s Patrice Poujol, whose film company’s NFTs emphasise ‘real access and real experiences’
In a show staged by Italian luxury brand Tod’s on the eve of the 60th Venice Biennale, ‘The Art of Craftsmanship’, master artisans recreated the label’s classic loafer shoe using their chosen craft.
Ahead of the US$32 million sale of a Gustav Klimt portrait unseen for 100 years, a claimant to its ownership, reportedly a potential heir to the legal successor of its original owner, came forward.
Wong Sai-kit has an intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. He is also an artist whose bold, colourful work – much of it created using spoons – is on show at a Hong Kong hotel.
Hong Kong artist Trevor Yeung’s aquarium installations at the Venice Biennale are devoid of fish. Post Magazine finds out why.
A new Hong Kong exhibition at Gate33 in Kai Tak’s Airside uses typography to explore the built environments, communities and culture of Wong Tai Sin, San Po Kong, Kowloon City and To Kwa Wan.
The intensely coloured Portrait of Fraulein Lieser is one of the last works by the Austrian modernist artist.
A landmark new exhibition in South Korea revisits ancient East Asian Buddhist art from Korea, China and Japan through the lens of gender, highlighting the influence women have had throughout history.
The super tall Perth native has no public social media accounts and loves spending time on his family’s ranch in Wyoming – which his glamorous husband likes to show up to in ‘fabulous Westernwear’
According to one culture official, the New Cathedral of Coimbra, in Portugal, served as the model for Macau’s Church of St Paul – of which only the facade remains, following a fire in 1835.
Chinese illustrator Carina Zhang has already used her art to help traumatised children. Now focusing on becoming a psychotherapist, she wants to teach creative skills to disadvantaged groups.
In Hong Kong, watching a film from a mile away has become another new normal – thanks to the M+ museum’s massive LED screen beaming out across Victoria Harbour every night
Koo Jeong-a, who was photographed for Loewe’s autumn/winter 2023 campaign and is the artist behind South Korea’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, talks about the process behind her ‘Odorama Cities’.