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Chinese affordable art fair AAC to launch Hong Kong edition
Posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Chinese art company Affordable Art China Ltd (AAC) will launch an art fair in Hong Kong in 2013. The event will focus on emerging artists and sell contemporary art works at “accessible prices”.
Pearl Lam: Another gallery for Hong Kong’s Pedder Building
Posted on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Pearl Lam will be the next high-end commercial gallery to move into the historic Pedder Building. The new 340 square metre gallery space will open to the public on 16 May 2012.
Stripping ‘Ophelia’ and more: 3 young Taiwanese new media artists in Hong Kong
Posted on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Hong Kong-based gallery Input/Output (I/O) featured Taiwanese new media artists Yao Chung-Han, Lin Guan-Ming, and Chang Li-Ren in their show “Made in Taiwan”, which closed April 2012.
Want to meet other Art Radar readers? 2nd Hong Kong City Meet Up for 2012
Posted on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
We warmly invite our Hong Kong readers, students and friends to join executive editor and founder Kate Cary Evans at an Art Radar get-together in April 2012.
Sotheby’s announces launch of new Hong Kong gallery space
Posted on Saturday, March 31st, 2012
Demonstrating their commitment to the Asian market, Sotheby’s has just announced they will open a new exhibition space in Hong Kong on 19 May 2012.
Weekly jobs and opportunities | SCOPE Art Fair, Tel Aviv Museum Director
Posted on Saturday, March 31st, 2012
Looking for new career opportunities in the arts? Browse the listings now on Art Radar’s newest service, the Art Radar Jobs page.
Seasoned Hong Kong artist sees WKCD project as “one step forward” – AAA interview
Posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
In a recent interview with Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong artist Chu Hing Wah commented on the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) and the M+ contemporary art museum.
Weekly jobs and opportunities | Assistant curatorships at M+, world-wide digital art competition
Posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Want to find opportunities in the arts? Browse the listings now on Art Radar’s newest service, the Art Radar Jobs page. New additions to the page will be featured each week.
Weekly jobs and opportunities | Assistant Curator at the Tate, ART HK events coordinator
Posted on Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Browse the new art opportunities available now on Art Radar’s newest service, the Art Radar Jobs page. New additions to the page will be featured each week.
Weekly jobs and opportunities | Professor of Art History HK, Exhibition Assistants London
Posted on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Check out Art Radar’s newest service. The Art Radar Jobs page will provide a round-up of the most exciting jobs, courses, placements and internships.
Leung Chi Wo’s identity art: words, buildings, bullet holes
Posted on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Hong Kong artist Leung Chi Wo’s first solo exhibition in London presents the artist’s reflections on how history is represented and interpreted.
What is ahead for contemporary Asian art, 2012 and beyond? Part II
Posted on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
The past decade has seen galleries expand, both in their reach and roles. Just how are they responding to the challenges of a globalised world? We explore in the second post in our 2012 and beyond art trend series.
Yang Fudong’s video installations a contemporary form of Chinese hand scrolls
Posted on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Yang Fudong sheds some light on his unique aesthetic through on explanation of the video works now on show at Spring Workshop and Osage in Hong Kong.
Christie’s ‘Faces of New China’ Private Collection Sale underperforms amidst art market slowdown
Posted on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Christie’s Hong Kong November 26 Private Collection Sale provides a dramatic example of single-owner sales’ susceptibility to the faltering Asian art market.
Habits of 7 top collectors – Wall Street Journal
Posted on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
A recent article published in The Wall Street Journal gives us a rare peek into the minds and habits of seven top collectors and the strategies that they are employing.
Higher level of international exposure for Southeast Asian art at Christie’s
Posted on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Christie’s includes Southeast Asian art in their Hong Kong autumn 2011 Asian 20th century and contemporary art sales along with art from China and other parts of East Asia.
Asian art market trends: 5 top posts from 2010 to 2011
Posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
This post in the ‘List’ series focuses on the latest trends in the contemporary Asian art market and summarises the 5 top posts the the Art Radar archive over the last year.
ART HK 11 top topics media round-up: Ai Weiwei, Gao Weigang, ASIA ONE and gallery sales
Posted on Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Art Radar collects what journalists, critics, bloggers and Tweeters had to say on the top trends of ART HK 11: Ai Weiwei, Gao Weigang, ASIA ONE and gallery sales.
ART HK 11 Hong Kong art fair: Chinese artist Gao Weigang wins 2011 ART FUTURES award
Posted on Thursday, May 26th, 2011
We look 2011′s ART FUTURES award winner Gao Weigang. The ART FUTURES award, worth US$25,000, is presented to one emerging artist by ART HK each year.
Hong Kong artist activist Kacey Wong on Ai Weiwei arrest – interview
Posted on Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
We talk to Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong about why he is so strongly involved in local protest action and what Ai Weiwei’s detention means for the city’s art community.
Who is the King of Kowloon? ArtisTree exhibition pays tribute to artist and eccentric Tsang Tsou-choi
Posted on Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Hong Kong exhibition “Memories of King Kowloon” tells the story of one of the city’s most iconic and eccentric artists, Tsang Tsou-choi (a.k.a. King Kowloon).
Where to see blue-chip art in Asia for free: Wall Street Journal reveals city secrets
Posted on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
The Wall Street Journal has uncovered some of the top but up-to-now somewhat secret spots in Asia to view collections of blue-chip contemporary and modern art.
Emerging contemporary art markets for 2011 revealed at ArtInsight seminar
Posted on Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Want to know which art markets are set to emerge? The third ArtInsight market seminar for 2011 gathers professionals to discuss Russia, India, Brazil, Africa and others.
Hong Kong gets first major Australian art survey
Posted on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
“WATTLE: Contemporary Australian Art”, the first show of it’s kind to hit Hong Kong, exhibits 45 artists and is a comprehensive overview of the county’s art production.
Words in Art: New media artist Hung Keung’s war on Simplified Chinese
Posted on Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
In this interview, Hong Kong-born new media artist Hung Keung explores the philosophy behind Traditional Chinese characters. Part of our “Words in Art” series.



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