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Having lived in Hong Kong from the 1990s until recently, our columnist shares his collection of paintings gathered during his time in a city often derisively referred to as a cultural desert.

Without Hong Kong’s thriving entertainment industry and open culture, the genius and creativity of the literary giant and his martial arts epics would have no chance to shine.

While Hong Kong’s creative industries are not quite the ‘Oriental Hollywood’ they once were, it is important to invest in this key economic pillar and foster cultural identity.

  • The Hoam Art Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition revisits ancient East Asian Buddhist art from Korea, China and Japan through the specific lens of gender
  • The exhibition features 92 treasured paintings, statues, scriptures and embroideries from 27 collections worldwide, making it an exceptionally rare event

The super tall Perth native has no public social media accounts and loves spending time on his family’s ranch in Wyoming – which his glamorous husband likes to show up to in ‘fabulous Westernwear’

According to one culture official, the New Cathedral of Coimbra, in Portugal, served as the model for Macau’s Church of St Paul – of which only the facade remains, following a fire in 1835.

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Chinese illustrator Carina Zhang has already used her art to help traumatised children. Now focusing on becoming a psychotherapist, she wants to teach creative skills to disadvantaged groups.

In Hong Kong, watching a film from a mile away has become another new normal – thanks to the M+ museum’s massive LED screen beaming out across Victoria Harbour every night

Koo Jeong-a, who was photographed for Loewe’s autumn/winter 2023 campaign and is the artist behind South Korea’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, talks about the process behind her ‘Odorama Cities’.

His work was shown in his 2-day exhibition ‘Pack a Punch’ in Miami Design District in April, and his works are in Stella McCartney and Donatella Versace’s collections

The carmaker’s i7 car appeared at the show in collaboration with an AI-driven experience by artist Alex Israel – just the latest in the brand’s creative tie-ups that have even involved Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein

Everything from songs penned by AI to augmented reality exhibitions come under art tech umbrella, which curators hope will catch eye of young people.

Hong Kong artist Kingsley Ng is asking pet owners to donate their animals’ fur so it can be made into giant balls for his exhibition at the Centre for Heritage Arts and Textile at The Mills in Tsuen Wan.

Noh Jae-myung, 33, has already amassed nearly 300 artworks by emerging artists. He talks about launching a new art fair, called Art OnO, in Seoul, with booths significantly cheaper than usual.

Hong Kong human rights lawyer and charity founder Patricia Ho explains how The Dive, by New Zealand-born Veronica Green, continues to empower her years after she fell in love with it at an art fair.

A Hong Kong musical promoting marine conservation and decrying shark’s fin soup, Shark Symphony is a mix of arts: throat singing, contortionism, acrobatics and belly dancing, backed by an orchestra.

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What have a London gay cruising hotspot and Hong Kong’s sacred Lam Tseun Wishing Tree got in common? Get down to artist Trevor Yeung’s ‘Soft Breath’ art exhibition at Para Site to find out.

An “invisible” artist in China who paints himself, chameleon-like, into natural backgrounds to promote environmentalism has become a hit on mainland social media.

In collaboration with the French National Library, Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture is hosting an exhibition of 280 powerful black-and-white photos, its first show dedicated to the medium.

Tai Kwun is an unrivalled heritage art space, TeamLab: Continuous and Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck transformed Victoria Harbour, while the West Kowloon waterfront has hosted anthropomorphic grapes

In this age of Google Earth and GPS, people still buy globes – they help us ‘find our place in the cosmos’, one maker says, adding that countries can be very sensitive about their territory’s depiction.

The 2,000-year-old paintings inspired by the Trojan War were found during excavations at the Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, which was submerged by volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.

Organisers of the Art021 Hong Kong fair are inviting selected gallery owners from China, the Middle East and other nations in the Global South to increase exposure to their artists’ ‘exceptional’ art.

Sphere, in Las Vegas, uses millions of LEDs to create images that bring art to the masses. One of the multibillion-dollar venue’s creative leads talks about what goes into making the visuals.

Ink artist T.K. Chan, a co-founder of Hong Kong’s Blink Gallery, explains how Chinese artist Water Poon’s innovative ink paintings, especially Get Together (2015), changed her life.

Japanese illustrator Mitsuko Onodera, known for her whimsical paintings depicting food in Hong Kong, talks about her love for the city’s cuisine before an exhibition of her work opens in the city.

In an Asian first, the Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival, taking place in June, will see works by the British playwright reinterpreted by troupes from Romania to the UK to South Korea.

Artist Kay Beadman bought space in an industrial building without a plan for it. Now she and two fellow artists run it as an art space, where they encourage young artists to experiment.

Sotheby’s spring contemporary art sales in Hong Kong fall short of those in 2023; there and at Poly Auction’s spring sale, fewer lots were on offer. A Yoshitomo Nara work sold for US$12.2 million.

Educated in both East and West and now living in Shanghai, Oscar Wang feels well placed to connect and share influences, something that brands increasingly value

James Cameron is known for his films’ use of computer-generated imagery, but the director says we need to unplug sometimes in the digital age. He’s wary of AI, but says it makes human artists more vital.

British artist Louise Giovanelli’s Hong Kong exhibition includes a new series of portraits featuring ‘sickly’ green-hued women in the throes of ecstasy, but is it orgasmic, religious or other pleasure?

Tired of the same old tourist guides to Hong Kong? The Hong Kong Design Centre has produced Design Citywalk HK, a guide to the city’s cultural offerings featuring places well known – and unexpected.