Ullens, who set up the contemporary gallery UCCA in 2007 in Beijing’s 798 Art District with his wife Myriam, started collecting art in the 1960s.
From Andrea Bocelli and Placido Domingo to Lang Lang, classical music stars have been eschewing Hong Kong in favour of nearby cities.
Hong Kong Museum of Art, put in charge of arranging exhibition at world’s oldest art biennial in place of M+ museum, invites proposals.
4-second clip by artist known as Badiucao, submitted to Italian gallery under a false name, part of a video art reel shown in busy district.
International visitors return en masse as galleries voice confidence that the 2025 fair will be a significant improvement over recent years.
The celebrated US artist is showing her large, dramatic multimedia and layered artworks at Gagosian gallery in Hong Kong.
Picasso was a genius with a dark side, one the M+ museum’s show of his art with modern and contemporary Asian art only partly addresses.
Head of dance at the academy Anna Chan promoted to lead the institution. Among her first tasks: hiring her replacement, 2 other school heads.
Artist Jaffa Lam’s practice describes a dynamic arc – like Hong Kong’s art scene itself – moving beyond cultural tradition to embrace the everyday and individual.
Created by Marisa Chearavanont, wife of CP Group’s chairman, the Khao Yai Art Forest includes works by Louise Bourgeois and Richard Long.
The artist, a scion of Taiwan’s Advanced Semiconductor Engineering family who died aged 45, remembered as ‘warm’ and ‘endlessly curious’.
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At Tai Kwun, Alicja Kwade throws visitors into the site’s penal past, while Hu Xiaoyuan casts doubt on what we think we know.
Japanese pianist Cateen, who recently played two sold-out shows in Hong Kong, was a computer engineer before becoming a social media star.
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Mindfulness workshops, jazz and classical music concerts, dance and drama events to feature in 24-day Fringe Festival 2025.
The American and Japanese artists known for masquerading as women from movies to critique society have their works up for comparison at M+.
Japanese actress best known for 1995’s Love Letter, who also had a stellar career as a singer, found dead at home, having cancelled a show.
Back in her home city, Chan hails improved HK Phil, and recalls her anger at concertgoers rejecting Russian music because of Ukraine war.
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Writer known for novels including My Fair Princess reportedly leaves suicide note saying ‘I choose this way to go home gracefully’.
Photofairs Hong Kong, slated for March 2025, scrapped by UK-based organiser because of unspecified ‘logistical constraints’.
‘An orchestra is a metaphor for collaboration,’ says music school head Damian Woetzel, a believer in power of arts to bring people together.
When Matthew Wong revealed he had bought one of Kahn’s paintings, Hong Kong collectors took an interest. At 78, Kahn has first show in Asia.
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun praises artist for creating Comedian artwork, before downing it on live stream at The Peninsula hotel.
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Untitled (Yellow and Blue) by Mark Rothko, once owned by fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low, fetches US$33 million at Sotheby’s auction.
For the Japanese fair’s 4th edition, art was shown not only in a gallery but at historic sites to deepen visitors’ understanding of Kyoto.
Salone del Mobile will show works from its SaloneSatellite permanent collection in an exhibition preceded by a spotlight of Hong Kong design.
The digital art extravaganza, whose 2024 edition was mesmerising, is in talks to launch in Hong Kong, but its co-founder has reservations.
Paris Art Week got a lift as Art Basel Paris moved into the city’s Grand Palais, attracting Hollywood stars and art lovers alike.
Director Jia Ding explains why his Opera Hong Kong production of rare Western work ‘that talks about China’ has to be historically accurate.
Heidi Chu quit in September for ‘personal reasons’, after the expo had been criticised by officials for its lack of community engagement.
Performed at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, The Accountants is electrifying and deeply moving with themes of cross-cultural understanding.