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      <description>Ahead of Art Basel and the slew of buzzy satellite events that made up Hong Kong art week in March, many international art enthusiasts headed to the He Art Museum in Shunde, over the border in mainland China’s Guangdong province.
The private museum was opened in 2020 by the He family, who own Midea Group, the world’s biggest home appliance maker. Housed inside an elegant building designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando that resembles a stack of discs, the museum has become a regular stop for...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Huizhou is a city in mainland China’s southern Guangdong province just 90 minutes from Hong Kong on the high-speed rail that offers budget-friendly stays and activities like leisurely strolls around its West Lake’s Lingnan-style pavilions.
But venture out of the city and you can discover how the wider Huizhou region is quietly transforming into a “scenic sweat” destination for those seeking physical activities among picturesque surroundings infused with culture.
An hour’s drive northwest leads...</description>
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      <description>Qatar, a gas-powered Gulf state, has long punched well above its weight.
The Islamic country is a major diplomatic player on the world stage, mediating conflicts ranging from Gaza ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas to peace negotiations between the Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
The Gulf nation’s state-funded broadcaster, Al Jazeera, has wielded huge international influence through its reporting, while its recent hosting of mega-sporting events – headlined by the 2022 Fifa World Cup –...</description>
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      <description>The year 2025 may be winding down, but the art scene in Guangzhou and Shenzhen is all abuzz with events and openings. In particular, the arrival of two new institutions highlights the Greater Bay Area’s continued determination to become a cultural destination.
The Shenzhen Bay Culture Square (SCS), which officially opened on November 1, is located in Houhai, an area defined by futuristic architecture and a sparkling coastline.
Nicknamed by netizens as the “Airpod building”, the 3.7 billion yuan...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Veteran Chinese curator Pi Li will step down as head of art at Tai Kwun when his three-year contract expires in February 2026, the Hong Kong heritage and arts centre has confirmed.
Pi declined a request for an interview, but sources have told the Post that he is going to play a leading role in the founding of a new art museum in Shenzhen.
The 51-year-old moved to Hong Kong in 2012 to become the senior curator in charge of the Sigg Collection of Chinese art at M+ museum.
Born in Wuhan, in...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>This summer, Hong Kong artists Tsang Kin-wah and Mark Chung escaped their hometown’s stifling heat by heading up to Dandong, the mainland Chinese frontier city best known for its border crossing with North Korea.
Far-flung and with fewer than a million citizens, Dandong has become an unlikely magnet for contemporary artists and art lovers from all over the world.
The reason is the Yalu River Art Museum, perched on a resort island just 500 metres (0.3 miles) from North Korean soil.
The museum was...</description>
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      <description>A wave of closures and cutbacks is sweeping through China’s private art museums, ringing alarm bells about the sector’s sustainability and raising questions about the outlook for one of the world’s biggest art markets.
The Jupiter Museum of Art, in Shenzhen, announced its shutdown in June. Days later, Qingdao’s TAG Art Museum followed suit. Others, such as Ennova Art Museum in Langfang, founded by the company behind Hong Kong-listed ENN Energy Holdings, have been dormant for months.
Even the...</description>
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      <description>A Labubu figurine sold for over a million yuan at an auction in Beijing this week, as demand for rare and limited editions of the soft toy rises.
Created by Hong Kong-born Lung Ka-sing and produced as collectible toys by mainland Chinese company Pop Mart, Labubu figurines are usually priced between US$30 and US$300.
The Yongle Auction sale featured 48 lots and recorded proceeds of 3,725,425 yuan (US$518,000). The auction drew a packed crowd at Beijing’s Phoenix Art Centre and was streamed online...</description>
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      <description>Tsang Kin-wah’s first Hong Kong exhibition in years was one of the most talked-about openings during Art Basel week, even though nobody could quite pronounce the title.
“T REE O GO D EVIL”, with the deliberate gaps, is still on view at Central’s Galerie du Monde, one of Hong Kong’s oldest established commercial galleries.
The immersive exhibition that completely takes over the gallery space’s surfaces also rings with political urgency. It is a particularly memorable comeback for a person once...</description>
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      <description>From Jaffa Lam’s solo exhibition to the launch of K11 HACC’s new art space, Art Week Shenzhen 2025 offers a number of compelling reasons for those attending Art Basel Hong Kong at the end of this month to make a trip across the mainland China border.
Most intriguingly, the art week – running from March 24 to 30 in China’s southern tech hub – is democratising an experience usually reserved for collectors: visits to artists’ studios and private homes.
A total of 11 artists and collectors are...</description>
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      <description>A city of 9.6 million people roughly 130km (80 miles) from Hong Kong, Foshan is full of cultural heritage and culinary delights.
The city is already known for having one of China’s best private art museums. The He Art Museum, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, is owned by the family behind electrical appliance giant Midea and located in Shunde district, on the outskirts of the city.
Alternative cultural attractions such as Art Field Nanhai have popped up in recent years as the local...</description>
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      <description>Chinese internet users are known for their trigger-happy ways when shopping for luxury products online, but news that someone may have bought an original Claude Monet painting on Xiaohongshu, China’s version of Instagram, has prompted fierce discussion online this week.
The buzz started on December 9 when an account named “Gallery Boss’s Backyard Garden” posted on Xiaohongshu with the tongue-in-cheek message: “Looks like no one on Xiaohongshu has ever sold a Monet Water Lilies before.”
The post...</description>
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      <description>They may lack the international profile of the recent Art Basel Miami week, but a series of art fairs and exhibitions that took place in December in three neighbouring cities in southern China was a reminder that the contemporary art scene in this part of the country is roaring with life.
Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Shunde in China’s Greater Bay Area held four concurrent art fairs and numerous exhibitions of their own in the first week of December, making it an unofficial art week of unprecedented...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 05:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Guangdong’s contemporary art scene taking off, as December’s unofficial art week shows</title>
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      <description>This year’s Shanghai Art Week was bigger and better than ever, involving two weeks of exhibitions, despite concerns of a slowdown in the art market.
Anchored by two home-grown art fairs and coinciding with the China International Import Expo, Shanghai Art Week began in the second week of November in the shadow of a slowing economy.
While the art market is certainly not as robust as it was a few years ago, the city’s strong collecting culture shone through, especially among the middle class, who...</description>
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      <description>Shortly after Hong Kong opened up its borders following the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, Hong Kong-based curator Chris Wan Feng presented a two-part exhibition called “Blue Throat” in Shenzhen, southern China, featuring the works of Hong Kong contemporary artists.
It was, he said, an attempt to create more cross-border exchanges because the two cities did not really understand each other despite their proximity.
A new group exhibition curated by Wan at Shenzhen’s Mangrove Gallery continues this...</description>
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      <description>In Chinese society, gods have their own specialities – as deities in many other cultures do.
Just as one would go to an ophthalmologist for eye problems, one can pray to the God of Literature (who, in Hong Kong, lives at Man Mo Temple in Sheung Wan) for better grades or a promotion at work.
If it is money you want, then the merciful and plentiful Kwun Yum, or Guanyin, is the goddess to go to. As for that other universal wish – good health – the gods Hau Wong and Che Kung are popular choices.
But...</description>
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      <description>At the opening of his solo exhibition in Shenzhen, artist Zhou Yilun regaled visitors with a story about an epic journey through Brazil.
The Hangzhou-based artist described a chance visit to the South American country which introduced him to – of all things – medieval church art, and talked about how he stayed for months during the coronavirus pandemic. There, he made art from scavenged material, finding inspiration from the makeshift shelters that he saw.
You might think this would explain why...</description>
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      <description>It is June 18 and the start of the monsoon season in Shanghai. I find myself crammed inside a taxi crawling through traffic from the Pudong district to trendy Anfu Road. I glance at my fellow passenger, the British film star and podcast host Russell Tovey. This is not your everyday cab ride.
I am crackling with excitement as I prepare to whisk him off along with a few friends on a whirlwind art-hopping adventure through Shanghai. It is Tovey’s first time in mainland China (he went to Hong Kong...</description>
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      <description>What do Chinese actress Zhu Zhu, Cantopop star Karen Mok, supermodel Cici Xiang and K-pop phenomenon NewJeans have in common? They have all become voices for major museums reaching out to wider Asian audiences.
Zhu is the narrator of the first Chinese audio guide made for a contemporary art exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome, which Mandarin speakers will be able to follow from July.
The 39-year-old Beijing-born actress and singer is famous in mainland China for having had a successful...</description>
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      <description>The previously announced Art021 Hong Kong art fair, initially slated for July, has been rescheduled to start later this summer and with an expanded programme that includes an outdoor sculpture exhibition.
The inaugural fair has been hotly discussed in the city’s art sector since news that the mainland Chinese company behind Art021 in Shanghai and Jingart in Beijing is moving into Hong Kong after scrapping its three-year-old DnA Design and Art Fair in nearby Shenzhen.
Art021 Hong Kong, which will...</description>
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      <description>Years of stringent zero-Covid lockdowns. A hardening of the political climate. Rapid urban redevelopment that displaced artists and galleries from once-famous artist villages. Beijing is trying to revive its art scene after a series of blows.
For years it was the beating heart of Chinese contemporary art. “Two decades back, if you were a scholar or curator and tried to research Chinese contemporary art, Beijing was the sole destination,” says Craig Yee, the founder of Ink Studio, a Beijing-based...</description>
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      <description>On May 10, the young and ambitious Chinese auction house Cuppar began Beijing’s spring auction season with 89.7 million yuan (US$12.4 million) in sales from its combined 20th-century and contemporary art evening auctions.
The following evening China Guardian, one of the country’s top auction houses, achieved total sales of 227.1 million yuan from its evening auctions also for 20th-century and contemporary art.
These numbers are by no means impressive. While Cuppar’s sales were a 12 per cent...</description>
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      <description>After months of speculation, the Shanghai-based art fair operator Art021 is launching a Hong Kong fair, scheduled for this summer – provisionally July.
Called Art021 Hong Kong, the inaugural edition is planned as an invitation-only event: all the galleries involved have been selected by the organisers.
With dozens of exhibitors, it is smaller than the city’s Art Basel and Art Central events. It hopes to differentiate itself from more established fairs by focusing on galleries from mainland...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Following the modest success of Art Basel Hong Kong, tightly managed auctions in Hong Kong over the weekend saw collectors dig deep for works by some of the biggest names in art, even if the high number of withdrawn lots and conservative pricing indicate that a full rebound in the art market remains elusive.
The most-watched of the first round of spring art auctions – Christie’s will lead the next round in May – was Sotheby’s combined Modern &amp; Contemporary and Now evening sales on April 5 at the...</description>
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      <description>Wealthy mainland Chinese families have been flocking to Singapore since the pandemic, drawn to the city-state’s reputation as a safe haven for capital and its friendliness to Mandarin speakers.
The new money is evident everywhere, from new mala hotpot chains dotting the streets to luxury penthouses disappearing off the market.
While Chinese buying power has yet to create a boom in local art sales, the new arrivals are making themselves felt in other ways: by starting their own art spaces.
Among...</description>
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      <description>Shenzhen will hold its inaugural art week from March 18-24 at the Sea World Culture and Arts Centre (SWCAC) and various art spaces across the city, including the OCT Loft creative complex and historic Nantou old town.
The organisers hope to capitalise on the presence of international collectors who will be attending Art Basel Hong Kong in the same week just across the border.
“We hope that when collectors from Beijing or Shanghai come for Hong Kong Basel, some of them will consider a stopover in...</description>
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      <description>In 2022, news that Guangdong Times Museum had to end all exhibition activities because of funding cuts sent shock waves through the Chinese contemporary art community.
And it left fans of the innovative and community-centred private institution in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou devastated.
Two years on, the museum is making a comeback in March to coincide with the Art Basel Hong Kong art fair, thanks to a charity auction organised by its remaining skeleton crew of five.
“There is a lot...</description>
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      <title>Private Chinese art museum makes a comeback, 2 years after sponsor’s pull-out left it on life support</title>
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      <description>Two art exhibitions in Shenzhen, China, offer poignant glimpses of the social and political landscape of Hong Kong and prove that, through art, it is possible to spark dialogue and connect people across borders.
In 1898, in the final expansion of Hong Kong under colonial rule, the British acquired the New Territories.
This historical backdrop forms the basis of artist Law Yuk-mui’s Landscape CO 1069/452(20) The Mountain, The River, The Valley (2023), a highlight of the exhibition “Blue Throat:...</description>
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      <title>Hong Kong artists’ Shenzhen exhibitions look at cities’ shared anxieties to show how art connects people regardless of geographical boundaries</title>
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      <description>As a metropolis with 18 million people and one of China’s economic powerhouses, Guangzhou is being eyed by art galleries for its potential as the next big art market.
One sign of the strong interest in contemporary art in the southern Chinese city was the crowd that filed into the Nan Fung International Convention and Exhibition Center for the opening of the Moordn Art Fair on December 8.
“Guangzhou actually has all the infrastructure needed for a contemporary art [hub], including an art...</description>
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