https://www.scmp.com/rss/4142/feed Enid Tsui is the Post's Arts Editor. Her previous positions 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 finance magazine published by the Economist Group. She has an MA in art history. Her book "Art in Hong Kong: Portrait of a City in Flux" was published in January 2025. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Enid Tsui Enid Tsui White gloves are traditionally given to an auctioneer if every single lot in a sale finds a buyer, a ceremonial touch that adds to the drama of these infrequent events. In March, during Hong Kong art week, the city saw two “white glove” auctions, which certainly raised hope that its multi-year auction market slump is finally over. The first of these milestone events occurred on March 27, when Christie’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale was 100 per cent sold. The auction was led by Gerhard... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3349243/sold-out-auctions-suggest-hong-kongs-art-market-back-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3349243/sold-out-auctions-suggest-hong-kongs-art-market-back-it?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:15:10 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui As the humidity settles over Hong Kong, a spectral spring mist veils Victoria Harbour. Yet, in the evenings, the luminous hand-drawn vision of Shahzia Sikander pierces the haze from the 110-metre-wide (328ft) LED facade of the M+ museum. Her nine-minute animation, 3 to 12 Nautical Miles (2026) – co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel – stands as a monumental reflection on the mercantile ghosts embedded in the city. Sikander, a Pakistani-American winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, who last had an... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3349148/new-film-ms-giant-screen-asks-hongkongers-confront-their-imperial-past?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3349148/new-film-ms-giant-screen-asks-hongkongers-confront-their-imperial-past?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:15:09 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Folklore and fantasy can tell us a lot about reality. A highlight of Hong Kong’s art week, Hart Haus is hosting two new exhibitions by queer female artists who use escapist themes to offer their grounded reflections on modern society. On the third floor exhibition space at 12P Smithfield Road in Kennedy Town, Florence Lee Yuk-ki’s exhibition “Double Blue: An Altered Fairy Tale of Hong Kong (I)” is divided into “sky” and “sea” chapters. It is not a traditional happily ever after but a loose... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3347133/sexual-fantasy-fan-fiction-fairy-tales-hong-kong-queer-artists-challenge-norms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3347133/sexual-fantasy-fan-fiction-fairy-tales-hong-kong-queer-artists-challenge-norms?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:15:09 +0000 Ambrose Li,Enid Tsui Ambrose Li,Enid Tsui Most overseas galleries were able to attend Hong Kong’s two annual art fairs, part of the much-anticipated Art March celebration, despite the conflict in the Middle East, though questions remain over how participants and artworks will leave the city as air travel continues to face heavy disruption. Organisers and logistics suppliers told the South China Morning Post that many inbound visitors would inevitably have to divert their journeys as interchange airports in Doha and Dubai were... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3347557/hong-kongs-art-march-celebrations-press-amid-middle-east-conflict-disruptions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3347557/hong-kongs-art-march-celebrations-press-amid-middle-east-conflict-disruptions?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:01:33 +0000 Enid Tsui,Ashlyn Chak Enid Tsui,Ashlyn Chak This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. With a surge of new venues and a relentless calendar of openings, navigating Hong Kong’s 2026 art week requires strategy. Here is our carefully curated shortlist. On the main stage Art Basel Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong remains the anchor of the season, with 240 exhibitors taking part. This year, two sectors have been added: “Echoes”, showing works made in... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3347339/definitive-scmp-guide-navigating-hong-kong-art-week?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3347339/definitive-scmp-guide-navigating-hong-kong-art-week?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Details of the Shenzhen museum being built by Pony Ma Huateng, co-founder and CEO of internet giant Tencent Holdings, were unveiled on March 17 after months of speculation. In a public letter, Pi Li, the former head of art at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun, revealed that he is the founding director and first employee of Rong Museum of Art, a cultural institution with around 4,500 square metres (48,400 sq ft) in total floor area that will open in 2027. The name Rong refers to the Chinese character for... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3346881/tencents-pony-ma-open-museum-shenzhen-led-tai-kwuns-former-head-art-pi-li?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3346881/tencents-pony-ma-open-museum-shenzhen-led-tai-kwuns-former-head-art-pi-li?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:35:32 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui With his peroxide blond hair, dark moustache and luxuriant eyebrows, London-born curator and writer James Taylor-Foster is easy to pick out among the tourists and selfie-takers in the courtyard of Yick Cheong Building, also known as the “Monster Building”, in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay neighbourhood. The South China Morning Post is meeting the 33-year-old here shortly after the board of the Hong Kong non-profit art space Para Site chose him to be its next executive director. That space, a few... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3346461/james-taylor-foster-para-sites-wild-card-director-beautiful-paradox-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3346461/james-taylor-foster-para-sites-wild-card-director-beautiful-paradox-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:01:28 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui “I feel they are about to reclaim this space,” says the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Hernan Diaz as he pauses along Battery Path in Hong Kong’s central business district to look at the tentacles of banyan trees gripping the walls like an intimate scaffolding. In the eyes of the New York-based writer, the contrast between lush vegetation and glass-and-steel monoliths illuminates the fragility of man-made symbols of power. “It is not entirely clear who is trespassing on whom.” Diaz is on a walk... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3345713/pulitzer-prize-winner-hernan-diaz-power-narratives-and-beautiful-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3345713/pulitzer-prize-winner-hernan-diaz-power-narratives-and-beautiful-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:15:10 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Sebastian Kaiser’s stage adaptation of Liu Yichang’s The Drunkard is as chaotic and electrifying as an exhilarating night out. This two-and-a-half-hour commission for the Hong Kong Arts Festival stays true to the 1962 novel’s rebellious spirit while freely adapting the stream-of-consciousness ramblings of a struggling writer drinking himself into oblivion. Among the many liberties taken is the splitting of the unnamed protagonist into two parts, played by actress Sze Wei and actor Yeung... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3345231/sebastian-kaisers-drunkard-adaptation-chaotic-timely-and-fiercely-alive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3345231/sebastian-kaisers-drunkard-adaptation-chaotic-timely-and-fiercely-alive?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:15:07 +0000 Chloe Loung,Enid Tsui Chloe Loung,Enid Tsui If the last two years were about saying “we are back”, this year’s Hong Kong “art week” has a more exploratory vibe, as a wave of new initiatives brings fresh ways to appreciate art and design. Here is a list of the bold first-timers creating a buzz on the fringes of Art Basel Hong Kong, the city’s flagship art fair that starts on March 25. 1. Central Yards Edible Art Fair This is where art is a full-sensory experience. Hong Kong’s first Central Yards Edible Art Fair will occupy a 20,000 sq ft... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3344867/6-new-fairs-galleries-and-pop-ups-making-hong-kong-art-week-bigger-and-bolder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3344867/6-new-fairs-galleries-and-pop-ups-making-hong-kong-art-week-bigger-and-bolder?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Billed as a maverick hybrid of Cantonese opera and contemporary political satire, Trump on Show returned to the stage on February 22 with up-to-date references that included the US Supreme Court’s ruling against US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs just days prior. The fourth version of the show, first created by feng shui master Edward Li Kui-ming in 2019, opened on the sixth day of the Year of the Horse and sold out quickly as a holiday blockbuster. It brings on board comedy actress... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3344471/trump-abducted-aliens-and-has-chinese-twin-chaotic-cantonese-opera?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3344471/trump-abducted-aliens-and-has-chinese-twin-chaotic-cantonese-opera?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:15:07 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui With the 61st Venice Biennale set to open on May 9, the two artists representing Hong Kong recently shared how they will interpret the overarching theme of the event – “In Minor Keys” – by slowing down time and appreciating the beauty of the ordinary. For their joint presentation, Angel Hui Hoi-kiu and Kingsley Ng Siu-king have been working with a curatorial team from the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMOA), which this year has taken over from the M+ museum to lead the Hong Kong collateral event at... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3342442/2026-venice-biennales-hong-kong-show-provide-window-everyday-city-life?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3342442/2026-venice-biennales-hong-kong-show-provide-window-everyday-city-life?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui The walls of Tai Kwun’s F Hall Studio have come alive with a 360-degree visual onslaught stitched together by eight projectors. During the 12-minute video loop, viewers are subjected to a thoroughly disorienting montage of first-person footage that shifts abruptly between banal and disturbing. The imagery is a relentless stream of contemporary consciousness: a nondescript city viewed from a hill, jerky footage of people being pushed in wheelchairs at great speed, a cacophony of television news... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3341826/what-does-chinese-video-art-pioneers-disturbing-new-work-hong-kong-mean?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3341826/what-does-chinese-video-art-pioneers-disturbing-new-work-hong-kong-mean?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:15:37 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui A new Asian art fair concept will take place in Taipei from January 22-26, followed by a Hong Kong edition in March. Called “Pavilion”, the fair is the brainchild of Willem Molesworth and Ysabelle Cheung, the founders of Hong Kong gallery PHD Group. The pair were also behind Supper Club, an alternative art fair that ran from 2024 to 2025 with late-night opening hours. The organisers say that the Taipei fair will share the ethos of Supper Club, which aimed to encourage a new kind of viewing and... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3339121/new-art-fair-pavilion-offer-taipei-and-hong-kong-different-kind-experience?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3339121/new-art-fair-pavilion-offer-taipei-and-hong-kong-different-kind-experience?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Tai Kwun has named Philip Tinari as its head of art, bringing one of mainland China’s most high-profile art personalities to the Hong Kong cultural institution. He replaces Pi Li, who will be leaving Tai Kwun next month to help launch a new art museum in Shenzhen. The American-born long-time Beijing resident will also take on the role of deputy director, working with Timothy Calnin, director of Tai Kwun Arts, across all artistic disciplines, including performing arts and heritage programmes at... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3339565/philip-tinari-named-head-art-hong-kongs-tai-kwun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3339565/philip-tinari-named-head-art-hong-kongs-tai-kwun?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:30:14 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui “Archive is a method,” Özge Ersoy says, sitting among the rooms full of bookshelves that now hold some 45,000 physical books, a far cry from the single shelf the Asia Art Archive started with 25 years ago. In September, Ersoy became the Hong Kong non-profit’s new executive director, taking over from the artist Christopher K. Ho as the archive celebrates its silver jubilee. The Turkey-born curator, researcher and educator is a familiar face in Hong Kong’s art scene, having been a full-time member... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337976/rise-hong-kongs-asia-art-archive-and-coming-digitisation-its-artefacts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337976/rise-hong-kongs-asia-art-archive-and-coming-digitisation-its-artefacts?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:15:08 +0000 Chloe Loung,Enid Tsui Chloe Loung,Enid Tsui Two vastly different projects in Hong Kong, one looking to the AI-driven architecture of the future, the other to the human stories of the past, are constructing different narratives of the city. At the Hong Kong section of the 2025 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) – sometimes known as the Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture – you can find prototypes of a new Hong Kong where AI grapples with the messy, difficult problems of how to bring communities... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337275/hong-kongs-ai-driven-future-and-human-past-contrasted-2-riveting-projects?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337275/hong-kongs-ai-driven-future-and-human-past-contrasted-2-riveting-projects?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:15:07 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui The Sigg Prize 2025 has been awarded jointly to Hong Kong animator Wong Ping and Macau-raised artist Heidi Lau, marking the first time the contemporary art prize has been shared between two artists since it was first awarded in 2019. The announcement was made on December 16 by M+, the museum in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District that organises the biennial competition named after the collector Uli Sigg. “We were deeply impressed by the works presented and decided to award two winners in... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337062/hong-kongs-sigg-prize-shared-first-time-m-boss-praises-2-bold-artists?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337062/hong-kongs-sigg-prize-shared-first-time-m-boss-praises-2-bold-artists?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:12:27 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Global collectors have given auction houses a Christmas present: a projected uptick in full-year revenue that marks a reversal from recent years of decline. The “Big Three” – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips – have reported a combined projected total revenue of US$14.1 billion for 2025, up roughly 10 per cent from 2024. “The first half was solid and stable. I feel even better at the end of the year, as a great second half gave us an even stronger finish,” Christie’s CEO Bonnie Brennan told the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337313/big-3-auction-houses-report-uptick-2025-revenue-asia-still-lagging?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337313/big-3-auction-houses-report-uptick-2025-revenue-asia-still-lagging?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:24:17 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Hung Fai has long stood out among post-1980 Hong Kong artists as a respectful, cool-headed rebel – a son who dissects his Chinese art inheritance with the precision of a surgeon. For more than a decade, the artist has considered the weight of lineage, specifically that of his father, the ink master Hung Hoi. Instead of tracing and copying as Chinese art tradition dictates, he invites his father as a collaborator with seeming reverence: his father almost always makes his marks first and in... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337278/artist-hung-fai-brings-both-control-and-chaos-solo-hong-kong-exhibition?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3337278/artist-hung-fai-brings-both-control-and-chaos-solo-hong-kong-exhibition?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui The Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) have selected artists Kingsley Ng Siu-king and Angel Hui Hoi-kiu to represent the city at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, marking the first time since 2007 that Hong Kong will not be represented by a solo artist. This will be the 13th time that Hong Kong takes part in the international art exhibition, which opens to the public on May 9, 2026, and the first exhibition that the government-run HKMoA is handling... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3336424/hong-kong-selects-2-artists-2026-venice-biennale-explore-lifes-poetic-rhythms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3336424/hong-kong-selects-2-artists-2026-venice-biennale-explore-lifes-poetic-rhythms?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui An anonymous collector of Hong Kong art has donated a “transformative” trove of 131 artworks to the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada in a move that elevates the international profile of Hong Kong art. The collection, titled Art Continuum Hong Kong (ACHK), was assembled over three decades by a Hong Kong-based collector, the museum said on December 8. The works by 78 artists have been added to the gallery’s permanent collection. Diana Freundl, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s senior curator, who helped... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3335867/transformative-collection-hong-kong-art-donated-vancouver-gallery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3335867/transformative-collection-hong-kong-art-donated-vancouver-gallery?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Lam Tung-pang strolls into Galerie du Monde’s Taipei space with a cheerfulness that belies his fraught journey from Vancouver. Fresh off a long-haul flight and overcoming a frantic last-minute visa hurdle, the Hong Kong-born artist is his usual sunny self, his one-time flight phobia now a distant memory. His high spirits are mirrored by the bright and lofty design of the space, which the Hong Kong-based gallery opened in 2024. Yet, the exhibition – titled “Everyone’s Journey Toward Faith is... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3334706/hong-kong-born-artist-lam-tung-pang-deconstructs-past-build-future-taipei-show?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3334706/hong-kong-born-artist-lam-tung-pang-deconstructs-past-build-future-taipei-show?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui On October 20, around a hundred guests journeyed through heavy and persistent rain to attend the dual celebration marking both the 100th and 60th birthdays of Taipei’s National Palace Museum (NPM). The latter age, which marks how long the museum has been open in Taiwan, on a lush hilltop just outside the capital, is significant in Chinese culture because of the sexagenary cycle, which marks patterns of fortune in Taoist belief. The centenary, on the other hand, is a nod to the museum’s roots in... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3333881/taiwans-national-palace-museum-marks-100-year-history-stunning-displays?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3333881/taiwans-national-palace-museum-marks-100-year-history-stunning-displays?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:15:52 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Not long into the time-jumping, three-hour-long play, we are plunged into a not-too-distant future. It is a terrifying reality in which the worst-case scenarios – the ones we only suggest sardonically and not wholly seriously today – have come to pass. In this universe, created by award-winning film director and scriptwriter Jun Li Jun-shuo, Germany has fallen under Russian rule by 2030, and the United States has been wrecked by civil war by 2036. Over seven decades, we watch as three... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3332590/perfect-world-hong-kong-play-brilliant-cast-and-bleak-outlook?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3332590/perfect-world-hong-kong-play-brilliant-cast-and-bleak-outlook?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:15:09 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Taiwan’s stock market is booming, the New Taiwan dollar is strong and a Taiwanese collector is believed to have paid HK$197 million (US$25.4 million) for a Picasso in Hong Kong in September. These are factors that drew various international galleries to Art Taipei, one of Asia’s longest-running art fairs that recently held its 2025 edition in the Taipei World Trade Centre. Despite opening in the shadow of three years of steady decline in global art market turnover and rival fair Taipei Dangdai’s... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3331272/art-taipei-2025-delivered-showing-taiwanese-art-markets-resilience-amid-challenges?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3331272/art-taipei-2025-delivered-showing-taiwanese-art-markets-resilience-amid-challenges?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:15:12 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Under intense political scrutiny, the real drama in Hong Kong’s arts scene often happens not on the stage, but in the offstage machinations of censorship. The planned rerun of Candace Chong Mui-ngam’s Cantonese play, We Are Gay – poignantly titled “We are the Happiest” in Chinese – has gone from defiant revival to seemingly insurmountable defeat within days. In mid-August, a November rerun of the award-winning play was announced, and advance booking began for the shows that would be performed at... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3329652/controversial-playwright-speaks-out-after-cancellation-gay-themed-play-starring-antony-wong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3329652/controversial-playwright-speaks-out-after-cancellation-gay-themed-play-starring-antony-wong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:15:11 +0000 Ambrose Li,Enid Tsui Ambrose Li,Enid Tsui Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District cancelled a gay-themed play set to be staged at its Xiqu Centre less than two hours before tickets went on sale at 11am on Saturday, citing complaints the work promoted confrontation and defamed the city. The author of We Are Gay, Candace Chong Mui-ngam, was also attacked in a 1,000-word opinion piece in the pro-Beijing Wen Wei Po Chinese-language newspaper for “building her happiness on Hongkongers’ pain”. “It is with regret that we announce the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3329520/hong-kong-arts-hub-cancels-gay-themed-play-hours-tickets-go-sale?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3329520/hong-kong-arts-hub-cancels-gay-themed-play-hours-tickets-go-sale?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:13:36 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Two of the world’s biggest art galleries have announced the closure of their respective Hong Kong outposts as major players reassess their global footprint amid a multi-year slump in the market. Pace Gallery, which represents artists such as Yoshitomo Nara, David Hockney and the estates of Agnes Martin and Mark Rothko, will close its space in H Queen’s, in Central, after seven years, following the end of its final exhibition by Cuban artist Alejandro Piñeiro Bello on October 18. On the other... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3328467/2-mega-galleries-close-hong-kong-branches-citys-art-market-loses-ground?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3328467/2-mega-galleries-close-hong-kong-branches-citys-art-market-loses-ground?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:15:10 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui You have heard of K-dramas and K-pop, but what about K-pop art? Even diehard hallyu fans who have binged on Korean dramas since Dae Jang Geum and followed idols on their world tours can be forgiven for thinking that it has something to do with fan art. As an exhibition in Hong Kong explains, Korean pop art is in fact a genre of contemporary art that traces back to 20th-century pop art in the US and the UK, one that was hungrily appropriated from booming consumerism in the noughties and that... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3327970/what-k-pop-art-hong-kong-exhibition-reveals-contemporary-genres-evolution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3327970/what-k-pop-art-hong-kong-exhibition-reveals-contemporary-genres-evolution?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui The art market downturn continued to play out at Christie’s, Phillips and Sotheby’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong this past weekend, with the turnover from back-to-back art auctions loitering at an eight-year low. But a handful of records and some last-minute withdrawals – which improved the success ratio of the sales – helped inject long-missing vigour into the sales room during the seasonal marquee modern and contemporary art evening sales, which saw around 100 high-value artworks go... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3327393/hong-kong-autumn-2025-art-auctions-see-lowest-combined-turnover-8-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3327393/hong-kong-autumn-2025-art-auctions-see-lowest-combined-turnover-8-years?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Some of the longest-running musicals in the world, such as Les Misérables, took years of refinement before they finally hit the right note, and even then they had to be tweaked to keep up with the times. So it is no surprise that the current third Hong Kong run of The Impossible Trial – the home-grown Cantonese musical about a scoundrel of a lawyer getting his comeuppance in ancient China – is noticeably different from its 2022 premiere, and is all the better for it. The changes to the content... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3323898/impossible-trial-review-classic-cantonese-musical-updated-and-improved?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3323898/impossible-trial-review-classic-cantonese-musical-updated-and-improved?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui On August 19, a declaration of fraternal love gushed forth in the same spot where Presidents Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and their wives had a private dinner in 2017, deep in the heart of Beijing’s Forbidden City. Enshrouded within the serenity of Jianfu Palace, or the Palace of Established Happiness, the directors of Beijing’s Palace Museum and the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) said that the two institutions were like “brothers” and dropped hints of new loans that would arrive in Hong Kong in... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3323047/brothers-hong-kong-and-beijing-palace-museums-reflect-special-ties?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3323047/brothers-hong-kong-and-beijing-palace-museums-reflect-special-ties?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:15:11 +0000 Nancy Wang,Enid Tsui Nancy Wang,Enid Tsui In 2022, clips of A Tapestry of a Legendary Land went viral online, alerting the world to the immense popularity of Chinese folk dance drama, or wuju in Mandarin. Since then, the number of new productions has exploded, with young audiences particularly enamoured with the “Eastern aesthetics” these dialogue-free performances featuring traditional Chinese costumes have come to epitomise. The first blockbuster wuju was 1979’s Rain of Flowers Along the Silk Road. Created by the Gansu Song and Dance... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3322747/why-are-chinese-folk-dance-dramas-suddenly-exploding-popularity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3322747/why-are-chinese-folk-dance-dramas-suddenly-exploding-popularity?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:15:11 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s choice of its new chief executive has stirred controversy, with an anonymous letter apparently sent to the government to protest against the selection of Austrian businessman Bernhard Fleischer being circulated online. On August 21, the orchestra announced that effective from September 1, Salzburg-born Fleischer would take over the job vacated by his German predecessor Benedikt Fohr, who left the orchestra in July after being in the job for six... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3322744/hk-phils-new-chief-executive-choice-sparks-controversy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3322744/hk-phils-new-chief-executive-choice-sparks-controversy?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:13:45 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui When you Google “Maumere”, tempting photos of turquoise waters, pristine beaches and coconut palm trees set against a lush, volcanic landscape pop up. The town, the second largest on Indonesia’s Flores island, is lauded as a “best-kept secret” and a “hidden paradise” on many travel websites. Hongkonger Mandy Ma Wing-man lived in this paradise for seven weeks earlier this year while on an unusual art exchange. On the island, she learned the fading art of hand-weaving Ikat fabric from an... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3321955/endangered-asian-traditional-crafts-spotlighted-hong-kong-exhibition-chat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3321955/endangered-asian-traditional-crafts-spotlighted-hong-kong-exhibition-chat?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui The second local re-run of The Impossible Trial, a home-grown Hong Kong musical, sparked a ticket-buying frenzy after its return from a sold-out tour in Shanghai and Beijing. On July 30, the official ticketing platform Popticket saw as many as 52,000 users joining the virtual queue. They were going after the 8,000 tickets released at 10am for 10 additional performances from August 31 to September 10, which sold out within hours, apart from a small number of tickets for wheelchair users. The 20... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3320362/hong-kong-musical-impossible-trials-new-run-sells-out-hours-after-mainland-success?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3320362/hong-kong-musical-impossible-trials-new-run-sells-out-hours-after-mainland-success?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui A number of exhibitions in Hong Kong this summer offer windows into what emerging artists make of the world they are inheriting, their coping mechanisms and ways of engaging with their adopted materials. “Art Actions: Our Youth Our Future”, a small show at the non-profit art incubator Hart Haus, pairs three Hong Kong awardees of the annual Hart Award with three diasporic international artists. Elsa Ngai Se-ngaa, who received the Hart Award for promising artists upon graduating from the Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3318957/hong-kong-2025-summer-exhibitions-see-young-artists-explore-identity-and-tradition?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3318957/hong-kong-2025-summer-exhibitions-see-young-artists-explore-identity-and-tradition?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui In Hong Kong, where encounters with 20th-century Southeast Asian art are still largely limited to random auction and art-fair appearances, a new exhibition at Villepin gallery offers a rare chance to see a broad mix of works by two major artists from the region: Fernando Zobel and Le Pho. Born in Manila in the Philippines, Zobel was a Harvard-educated artist, museum director, collector and influential figure in both his home country and his adopted home of Spain. He has long been recognised as a... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3314313/rare-hong-kong-exhibition-featuring-2-major-southeast-asian-artists?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3314313/rare-hong-kong-exhibition-featuring-2-major-southeast-asian-artists?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Jun 2025 05:15:07 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Aristo Sham Ching-tao, the first pianist from Hong Kong to win the gold medal in the Van Cliburn Piano Competition, has expressed his gratitude for the overwhelming support he received from the city following his victory in one of the world’s toughest and most prestigious music competitions. Speaking from New York, Sham said: “I am overwhelmed by the support in Hong Kong since the news of my win. I really did not expect that.” Born in Hong Kong, he left to study overseas at the age of 14, but... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3314107/thank-you-hong-kong-says-pianist-aristo-sham-after-historic-van-cliburn-competition-win?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3314107/thank-you-hong-kong-says-pianist-aristo-sham-after-historic-van-cliburn-competition-win?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Jun 2025 04:48:36 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Para Site and Asia Art Archive (AAA), two long-standing independent cultural institutions in Hong Kong, are simultaneously seeking new executive directors at a pivotal moment for the city’s cultural scene. On June 2, Para Site in Quarry Bay announced that Billy Tang had stepped down as executive director and curator after concluding his three-year contract. The British-born former senior curator of Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum took over from Cosmin Costinas – who had run Para Site for 11 years... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3313705/2-hong-kong-art-spaces-seek-new-leaders-experts-weigh-impact?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3313705/2-hong-kong-art-spaces-seek-new-leaders-experts-weigh-impact?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Jun 2025 03:16:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Who was Ha Bik-chuen, who died in Hong Kong in 2009? He was many things: autodidact, maverick artist, entrepreneur and hoarder. Much of what has been written about him, and many of the shows of his work, in the years since his death have focused on the materials found in his overflowing studio in To Kwa Wan in Kowloon, which during his time was an industrial area of Hong Kong. Photographs, clippings and pamphlets he felt were indicative of social changes in his time had accumulated there, as... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3313491/he-called-them-motherboards-artist-ha-bik-chuens-printing-plates-show-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3313491/he-called-them-motherboards-artist-ha-bik-chuens-printing-plates-show-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:15:07 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Hong Kong pianist Aristo Sham Ching-tao has won the 2025 edition of the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, putting him on track for global stardom. Sham, 29, is the first pianist from Hong Kong to win the competition, held in Fort Worth in the US state of Texas. The announcement on June 7 of his victory followed two-and-a-half weeks of intense anticipation. Live streams of the contest’s four gruelling rounds, which began on May 21 with 28 competitors from 15 countries,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3313530/hong-kong-pianist-aristo-sham-wins-prestigious-van-cliburn-international-competition?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3313530/hong-kong-pianist-aristo-sham-wins-prestigious-van-cliburn-international-competition?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Jun 2025 05:14:24 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui On Kawara was part of a cohort of 20th century conceptual artists, including his friends Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre, who adopted a minimalist visual language that left a great deal of room for interpretation. Born in Japan, Kawara produced abstract, radically obscure art, including: a 47-year series of paintings of random dates; a 12-year typed ledger, filed in office binders, of people he met called “I Met”; a similar series called “I Went” in which he traced his daily itineraries on... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3312574/enter-serial-world-japan-born-conceptual-artist-kawara-hong-kong-exhibition?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3312574/enter-serial-world-japan-born-conceptual-artist-kawara-hong-kong-exhibition?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Jun 2025 05:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui You don’t often hear a Hong Kong dance production compared to a blockbuster film’s success on Oscars night, but that was how the Hong Kong Dance Alliance described a near clean sweep of its annual awards by Hong Kong Ballet’s The Butterfly Lovers. “This is astonishing – it feels like Oscars night in the year of Titanic,” said the awards’ co-chairman, and Post dance critic, Natasha Rogai. At the awards ceremony, held at the Fringe Club in Central district on May 19, The Butterfly Lovers won a... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3311826/titanic-sweep-hong-kong-dance-awards-and-sinking-feeling-about-dances-standing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3311826/titanic-sweep-hong-kong-dance-awards-and-sinking-feeling-about-dances-standing?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 May 2025 02:45:07 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Hell looks quite jolly if it is like the one designed by Ho Sin-tung. Visitors to the Hong Kong artist’s latest exhibition are welcomed by an animated neon sign showing a pair of hands supporting an overspilling bowl, the stream of liquid in the middle resembling the stem of a cocktail glass, and the name Circe glowing invitingly on one side. Beneath it is a five-step display stand for what appears to be cheap tourist tat: fridge magnets, crystal globes, keychains and ashtrays. It would be... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3311793/hong-kong-artist-ho-sin-tungs-graphic-interpretation-love-and-friendship-new-show?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3311793/hong-kong-artist-ho-sin-tungs-graphic-interpretation-love-and-friendship-new-show?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 May 2025 09:15:07 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui A star-studded line-up awaits Hong Kong Philharmonic concertgoers in its 2025-26 season, including pianist Lang Lang, soprano Renée Fleming, composer Tan Dun and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Tarmo Peltokoski, who will become the orchestra’s music director in the second half of 26, will conduct three programmes during the season, while the 25-year-old’s fellow Finn Esa-Pekka Salonen will be composer-in-residence. This season’s artistic partner, Italian Daniele Gatti, returns to conduct the Phil,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3311050/lang-lang-renee-fleming-tan-dun-anne-sophie-mutter-among-hkphil-2025-26-seasons-stars?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3311050/lang-lang-renee-fleming-tan-dun-anne-sophie-mutter-among-hkphil-2025-26-seasons-stars?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 May 2025 07:16:31 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui There were hoots of laughter as the artist South Ho Siu-nam performed his new live performance piece during the May 10 opening of his exhibition “Wandering Daily” in Hong Kong. Wearing a pair of plain white, basic trainers laced up with different ends of the same 100-metre-long shoelace, Ho strutted around Blindspot Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang in faux military style, dragging a long trail of white string through the crowded room in his wake. It caused mild mayhem as members of the audience... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3310913/performance-art-south-ho-makes-point-about-hong-kongs-red-lines-under-security-law?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3310913/performance-art-south-ho-makes-point-about-hong-kongs-red-lines-under-security-law?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 May 2025 05:45:07 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui A 95-minute bidding war would have made headlines even when the Hong Kong auction market was at its frothiest a decade ago, so a recent protracted battle over a 14th century Chinese calligraphy scroll was all the more remarkable for coming four years into a market downturn. Rao Jie’s 700-year-old, six-metre long, cursive-script calligraphy of two pieces of prose attracted more than 200 bids when it came up for sale during Sotheby’s 92-lot Fine Classical Chinese Paintings sale on April 10,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3309960/chinese-antiques-auction-outlook-hong-kong-cautious-despite-bidding-war-scroll?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3309960/chinese-antiques-auction-outlook-hong-kong-cautious-despite-bidding-war-scroll?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 May 2025 23:15:08 +0000 Enid Tsui Enid Tsui Auctioneers Sotheby’s postponed the sale of sacred Buddhist relics in Hong Kong on May 7 at the last minute in response to a demand from the Indian government. New Delhi also demanded the immediate repatriation of the relics. The “Piprahwa Gems of the Historical Buddha” were to have been one of the highlights of a fortnight of auctions ongoing in Hong Kong that are focused on Asian works of art. According to a member of the family which consigned them for auction, the relics in question are... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3309352/sothebys-calls-last-minute-halt-hong-kong-sale-buddha-relics-after-india-intervenes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3309352/sothebys-calls-last-minute-halt-hong-kong-sale-buddha-relics-after-india-intervenes?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 May 2025 04:37:56 +0000