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Enid Tsui
Enid Tsui
Hong Kong
@enidtsui
Editor, Culture
Enid Tsui is the arts editor of the Post. Her previous posts include the Hong Kong correspondent and Asia companies and markets editor of the Financial Times, presenter on RTHK Radio 3 and editor-in-chief of CFO China, a magazine published by the Economist Group. She has an MA in art history and she is writing a book about Hong Kong.

Showing at Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong, Howie Chui says his work is inspired by wuxia martial art novels by the likes of Jin Yong, but where the imagery actually comes from is anyone’s guess.

The place of his birth, Hong Kong never felt like home the way Helsinki does for Sheung Yiu. He mines childhood memories, and 3D-prints his desk, to create illusory experiences of home for a new show.

A new exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum aims to expand the notion of shanshui – East Asian ink landscape paintings – and bring it to ‘the level of our contemporary world’.

Kicking off with an exhibition of Chinese artist Zhang Enli, Hauser & Wirth’s new street-level art gallery at 8 Queen’s Road Central in Hong Kong aims to make art more accessible.

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A body representing Hong Kong filmmakers expresses surprise after the city’s film censors, according to a source, required M+ museum to remove the name of a 1993 Chinese film in order to show it.

As Jaap van Zweden, music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, prepares to hand over the baton, we look at candidates to succeed him.

Wang Tuo’s monumental video work ‘The Northeast Tetralogy’ saw the mainland Chinese artist clinch the prestigious Sigg Prize 2023 awarded by Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture.

A pillar of the Hong Kong arts scene, the Fringe Club has seen off five rival bidders for the lease on the South Block of the Old Dairy Farm Depot, its base for the past 40 years.

Two Chinese artists, Zhang Wenzhi and Zheng Haozhong, show their contrasting styles of painting in side-by-side exhibitions at Hong Kong’s Blindspot Gallery.

From Art021 and the West Bund Art and Design fair to the China International Import Expo, Shanghai Biennale and many other exhibitions, the Chinese city’s art scene is looking busier than ever in 2023.

London-based 1-54 African art fair has announced its Hong Kong debut with a small exhibition at Christie’s in March 2024. Art experts talk about Asia’s growing interest in work by African artists.

A job lot of items from failed restaurant Écriture, thought to have included a large painting by Korean artist Park Seo-bo, is sold for far less than the work is thought to be worth. An art adviser calls the sale undignified.

A Hong Kong art project invites visitors to the Nature Discovery Park at the K11 Musea mall to remember a deceased loved one by choosing birdsong to play through a speaker in a bird box.

Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei managed to only sell 28 of the 39 paintings on offer for a total of HK$455 million (US$58.1 million) 24 per cent less than the bottom estimate.

Hong Kong museum’s second display of Chinese art from the Sigg Collection cannot be divorced from the context of its creation in the 1990s, a transformative decade in China.

Founded in 2022, Frieze Seoul is already the second most important art fair in Asia for gallerists, underscoring the South Korean capital’s rapid growth as a centre of contemporary art.

‘There is still a chance,’ composer Charles Kwong said as he entered a rehearsal for the already delayed world premiere of his piano concerto with Typhoon Saola bearing down on Hong Kong. But it wasn’t to be.

Abstract artist Ding Yi took the cross – once a symbol of ‘criticism and denial’ – and turned it into one of liberation from the Cultural Revolution and a tool of expression, as a retrospective in Shenzhen shows.

An exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art will tell the story of China’s Jiangnan region through ancient artefacts from Chinese institutions, in an instance of cultural exchange amid ongoing Sino-US tensions.

Hong Kong Ballet and city orchestras are undertaking tours abroad delayed by the pandemic – and with more of an ambassadorial role than previously after 2019’s protests and the imposition of a national security law.

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Highlights of the 2024 festival have been revealed, including ballet from Teatro alla Scala, a full-length The Peony Pavilion, Peter Brook’s last theatre production and Bavarian State Opera doing Richard Strauss.

Trevor Yeung, an artist best known for site-specific installations using plants and aquariums that illustrate human emotions and processes, will represent Hong Kong at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

The Asian Youth Orchestra will hold its first Hong Kong concerts without its American co-founder Richard Pontzious next weekend, before taking off for Thailand, Taiwan and Japan.

In his latest Hong Kong show “Splinters”, artist Mark Chung takes inspiration from his time studying in ultra-neat Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, to critique architecture’s role in propping up the illusion of social order.

The evolution of Hong Kong neighbourhood Wong Chuk Hang to ‘major art hub’ is complete now the city’s Arts Development Council has moved in. Its opening exhibition is of art inspired by the area’s history.

HalfDream.org, a website set up by Hong Kong artist Doreen Chan to connect people who’ve had similar dreams, features in an exhibition at Hong Kong’s Para Site art space, and is part of a wider art project.

At least half of the Hong Kong Arts Centre’s staff have left since the previous executive director stepped down in August 2022, former employees say, as accusations of self-censorship fly.

Hong Kong photographer John Fung, who died last month aged 70, made his name with his stark black-and-white shots of street life in the 1970s and ’80s. Friends remember Fung as a free spirit.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic has prepared a star-studded line-up for its 50th anniversary season, including Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Lang Lang and Kahchun Wong