Against all odds, the Hong Kong Arts Festival has a total of 33 shows planned for February and March, with about half scheduled for physical, in-venue performances.

Legendary Italian restaurant Lucio’s in Sydney will auction off 200 artworks by many of Australia’s best-known modern and contemporary artists as it closes down.

Swindon Books, whose main branch closed in July, shuts its store at HKU – rendered irrelevant by students buying books online or sharing downloads. Academics and student union president voice concern, with no news of it being replaced.

Pontzious, who died on Christmas Day aged 76, co-founded the Asian Youth Orchestra in 1987 with Yehudi Menuhin, and it has since helped thousands of young musicians launch their careers.

The mass cancellation of performances had a big impact on a sector whose workforce is mostly freelance, but also brought innovation as theatre, dance and music troupes explored online presentation.

Chinese artist Cai Guo-qiang has been criticised in the past for his government commissions but his new show at Beijing’s Palace Museum is yet another. We ask him why he took it on.

An exhibition to accompany the release of book Daisy Fairy and the Bear: From the Beach to Wondeer features 30 works six artists from the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals’ i-dArt programme.

Hong Kong visual culture museum M+ announced it had approved a donation of 90 contemporary artworks, most of them by local creators, from William Lim and his wife Lavina.

Young Hongkongers are opening art galleries that share space with anything from dance clubs to lifestyle stores, and that breathe new life into the Hong Kong arts scene.

Fine Art Asia and Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel fairs under way at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, also the venue for Christie’s autumn auctions, which feature works by Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama among others.

Publicity for the first exhibitions at the Hong Kong Palace Museum in 2022 strongly suggests that national treasures rarely shown in public will feature heavily among the 800 exhibits loaned by its namesake in Beijing.

Students about to leave for study abroad tell Leung Chi-wo what home means to them, 15 years after he asked Hongkongers the same question; in Wan Chai, an empty shop becomes a pop-up dreamland.

Combine a visit to the The National Gallery of Singapore for a retrospective of major local artist Georgette Chen with a meal at three-Michelin-star Odette, or indulge in gin and champagne at the Atlas bar in Bugis.

Hong Kong Philharmonic musician James Boznos has put months of Covid-19 lockdown to good use by composing a piece about social distancing.

With zero revenue from venue rental and local political divides, Asia Society Hong Kong finds itself in unknown territory as it reaches its 30th anniversary.

A collective of five robots is in residence at an art space in Hong Kong, where they are sketching portraits of human subjects. Their creator, Patrick Tresset, says the experiment is part of a live theatre project that is streamed online.

Chinese artist Cao Fei reveals how 10 months of lockdown in Singapore inspired her unique global pandemic project, Isle of Instability.

Andrew Hevia arrived in Hong Kong intending to make a documentary about the city’s art scene, but quickly realised he was in over his head. He still made a film – Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window, which drolly documents his failure.

Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen makes collaborative installations about travel, family, rebellion and reconciliation. Her first ‘solo’ exhibition Sky Patch includes fabric sculptures that visitors can work on and add to.

The event highlights taboo-breaking work by local and international artists, but to some it is helping the kingdom’s rulers maintain a pretence of normality amid calls to reform the monarchy and remove the government.

When he visits a place, Belgian artist Francis Alÿs looks to understand it by observing children at play. Hong Kong children are remarkably patient, he says as his solo exhibition in the city opens.

Confined for two weeks in tiny rooms, players allowed to bring their smaller instruments have kept up practise and learned new pieces. The contrabassoonist’s yoga classes have kept them fit.

Artspace K founder Chen Kok-choo, former chairman of Taiwan’s National Performing Arts Centre, wants to help address how remote contemporary art is from ordinary people’s lives.

Yayoi Kusama, Zhang Huan and Yang Jiechang among artists who donated 30 works to be put up for sale

Key member of city’s philharmonic orchestra tests positive for virus, sending 100 musicians into quarantine after concert attended by Hong Kong’s leader.

Long awaited, delayed and now extended, Asia Society’s New York exhibition ‘to put Asian art in the foreground’ is notable for the diversity of artists represented.

Chinese video artist Cheng Ran believes millennial artists in China don’t see themselves limited by traditional concepts of nation, society and roles and ‘only represent themselves’ with art that often draws on digital influences.

Bitter early exit of CEO exposes rifts over handling of financial issues, changes, delays.

Nicole Ching, the co-founder of Museum 2050, has curated an online exhibition called ‘Re:orient’ to connect artists directly with gallerists and collectors.