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“Windbreak” (2025), by Jaffa Lam, an installation of ceramic columns, is part of the 15th Shanghai Biennale that runs until March 31, 2026, at the Power Station of Art in Huangpu. Photo: Jaffa Lam and Shanghai Biennale
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Hong Kong artist’s ceramic forest inspired by old Shanghai’s wooden staircases

At the Shanghai Biennale, Jaffa Lam explores the climate crisis and community with her Longquan-celadon-style ceramic columns.

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Damien Hirst and Do-ho Suh among top artists showing in Seoul in 2026

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A father dies before his art museum is finished. His son achieves his dream

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New art fair to offer Taipei and Hong Kong ‘a different kind of experience’

Pavilion offers a slower alternative to the ‘hyper-accelerated pace’ of Asia’s big contemporary art fairs, says one of its co-founders.

Pavilion co-founders Ysabelle Cheung (left) and Willem Molesworth (right) with Pavilion Taipei partner Michelle Hsieh. The new art fair, opening in Taipei on January 22, will provide a “more in-depth” art-viewing experience, meeting a need that the founders believe bigger events have “struggled to satisfy”. Photo: courtesy of Pavilion
Pavilion co-founders Ysabelle Cheung (left) and Willem Molesworth (right) with Pavilion Taipei partner Michelle Hsieh. The new art fair, opening in Taipei on January 22, will provide a “more in-depth” art-viewing experience, meeting a need that the founders believe bigger events have “struggled to satisfy”. Photo: courtesy of Pavilion
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UCCA’s Philip Tinari named new head of art at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun

American-born curator Philip Tinari, long-time head of Beijing’s UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art, is set to replace Pi Li.

World of performing arts

Frozen, Spirited Away among shows lighting up Seoul’s theatre stages in 2026

Broadway imports Hell’s Kitchen and Lempicka, novel adaptation Arang and musical Six also among the South Korean capital’s highlights.

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Hong Kong’s women tattoo artists who draw on Chinese culture to ink differently

These artists channel elements of Chinese painting, calligraphy and Buddhism through their needles in a new form of ‘poetic expression’.

Bella Yuen tells the Post that, as a child, she used to go to Buddhist temples and chapels in Hong Kong with her Buddhist mother. She also read Chinese Buddhist texts and practised calligraphy briefly, which “planted the seed” of her unique traditional Chinese tattooing style now. Photo: Bella Yuen
Bella Yuen tells the Post that, as a child, she used to go to Buddhist temples and chapels in Hong Kong with her Buddhist mother. She also read Chinese Buddhist texts and practised calligraphy briefly, which “planted the seed” of her unique traditional Chinese tattooing style now. Photo: Bella Yuen
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Artist’s digital clones spark identity crisis in Hong Kong exhibition

Digital art pioneer Lau Wai explores identity and technology in a short-film screening at the Hong Kong Design Institute.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

New Hong Kong street dance festival aims to change ‘troubled kid’ stereotype

Hong Kong’s Flo Fest will see performances from eight emerging local choreographers as well as from Ivan Michael Blackstock and The Ruggeds.

Chinese culture

‘I’d lie on the floor and cry’: Peking opera actress on the art’s challenges

Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting performs poses that can take months to perfect, and leave more than a few bruises.

Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting (left) performs a difficult balancing move during a show at the Jixiang Theatre in Beijing, China. Photo: AP
Chinese culture

For Shanghai’s elderly, dancing ‘makes us feel we still have value’

Shanghai’s elderly are flocking to the city’s dance halls for exercise, socialising and entertainment, with some venues open as early as 6am.

Guests dance at the Shiguang Dance Hall in Shanghai. The city’s dance halls offer retirees vibrant social spaces to exercise and connect. Photo: AFP
Guests dance at the Shiguang Dance Hall in Shanghai. The city’s dance halls offer retirees vibrant social spaces to exercise and connect. Photo: AFP
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, January 2-4

Check out Moomin, neon exhibitions and the Hong Kong Tennis Open, watch Back to the Past with Louis Koo and eat snake hotpot this weekend.

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Coming arts events in China’s Greater Bay Area in January 2026

China’s Greater Bay Area is hosting a number of arts happenings in early 2026. Here is a selection of must-attend events.

Chinese culture

The Chinese cowboys challenging narratives of the American Old West

Whether through art or immersion in the rancher lifestyle, these Asian men are redefining what it means to be a cowboy in the American West.

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Self-professed Chinese cowboy Bruce Wang Shibo stands with a horse. The Chinese national is one of those rewriting narratives of the American West. Photo: Bruce Wang Shibo
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Hong Kong painter’s bedroom music-inspired show is ‘a self-healing journal’

In ‘Bedroom Paintings’ at Blindspot Gallery, Un Cheng’s 21 hazy works draw on self-discoveries the artist made on a recent trip to Europe.

Un Cheng poses among paintings featured in Bedroom Paintings at Blindspot Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang. The Hong Kong artist says her latest solo exhibition is “a visual diary about intimacy”. Photo: Elson Li
Un Cheng poses among paintings featured in Bedroom Paintings at Blindspot Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang. The Hong Kong artist says her latest solo exhibition is “a visual diary about intimacy”. Photo: Elson Li
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How Hong Kong’s Asia Art Archive has grown over its 25-year history

As Hong Kong’s Asia Art Archive turns 25, we talk to its executive director Özge Ersoy about managing the institution’s 150,000 plus artefacts.

World of performing arts

John Skelley’s Harry Potter journey from Broadway understudy to star

Every time Skelley thinks he’s done with the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, ‘opportunity kind of keeps coming back’.

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6 young artists are reshaping Australia’s iconic cultural institutions

Six diverse artists, including Dylan Goh and Vivian Pham, have been appointed to director positions at Australia’s top cultural institutions.

Six new members, aged 18 to 28, have been appointed to director positions at prestigious cultural institutions in Australia. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Six new members, aged 18 to 28, have been appointed to director positions at prestigious cultural institutions in Australia. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Performing arts in Hong Kong

7 of the best arts stories of 2025, including a new Labubu-style soft toy

From Wallis Simpson to prize-winning Hong Kong pianist Aristo Shum, here are 7 arts stories that really drew in the readers in 2025.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, December 26-28

Check out the food scene at a Christmas market, hop on a thrilling ride at a harbourfront carnival and bask in nature this weekend.

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Chinese culture

How the horse paintings of Xu Beihong have galloped through history

Known as the father of modern Chinese art and famed for his horse paintings, Xu Beihong blended Western techniques with Chinese tradition.

The Three Stallions, by Xu Beihong. The piece is just one example of the many horse paintings that Xu was known for.
World of performing arts

Meet the Korean viral ‘dancing conductor’ who says he’s not actually dancing

Some conductors are visibly moved by the music, but Korean maestro Baek Yoon-hak takes that concept a step or two further.

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South Korea’s “dancing conductor” Baek Yoon-hak uses his energy-filled moves to get the whole audience joining in.
South Korea’s “dancing conductor” Baek Yoon-hak uses his energy-filled moves to get the whole audience joining in.
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Drones meet dancers in Hong Kong performance of Lucie in the Sky

The Australasian Dance Collective’s show is an imaginative combination of technology and dance but the choreography is disappointing.

Architecture and design

Hong Kong’s AI-driven future and human past contrasted in 2 riveting projects

Sterile AI-driven designs at the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture are at odds with a group’s efforts to preserve community stories.

Art

Hong Kong’s Sigg Prize shared for first time in the award’s history

Animator Wong Ping and ceramicist Heidi Lau share the Sigg Prize 2025, a contemporary art prize awarded by Hong Kong’s M+ museum.

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