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Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, the largest contemporary art fair in Hong Kong, takes place from March 23 to 25. Now in its fifth edition, Art Basel is the biggest event in Hong Kong Art Month. The fair will draw hundreds of art collectors and connoisseurs from around the world to the city. Galleries and satellite fairs will be doing their utmost to attract a share of the attention and crowds with exhibitions of their own. Read this page for tips about the artworks to see and places to go, and for news and views about Art Basel from the South China Morning Post's Culture team.
The fast-talking Hans Ulrich Obrist, recently in Hong Kong for the opening of a Zaha Hadid exhibition, recalls how he got into art and the impact of the architect’s death last year
Last-minute cancellation of Middle East contemporary art show in China raises questions about right way to work with museums there. V&A Museum’s deputy director offers a three-step strategy
Co-curator says that while the New York museum’s show acknowledges global stars such as Ai Weiwei and Cao Fei, the 75 artists featured highlight the arch innovation of the less collectible avant-garde
The writer and film director, who is known for his graphic novels such as the Nikopol trilogy, is bringing his brand of dark, surreal art to the city for the first time
The American, in Hong Kong for his second exhibition, sees hope in his latest work, but ‘not the world’s hope’; making art ‘is a selfish act’, he says. Yet in Chicago he’s opened, at his expense, a ‘repository for black American culture’
Fashion house’s chief creative force has made three-dimensional version of A Magazine issue he guest-edited in 2016 for exhibition on the theme Blind For Love
Bernice Chan dons a VR headset and walks through a 3D Chinese ink landscape drawn by Chinese artist Yang Yongliang using Tilt Brush, a new Google tool – then has a go at making art herself
Greater China becomes biggest art auctions market as US sales value drops and more art is exchanged in private deals, says first Art Basel/UBS art market report – more gloomy than rival Tefaf’s recent verdict
There’s stunning and enticing art aplenty at this year’s fair, and from some big names too. Shen Shaomin’s installation Summit and Shi Guorui’s stark camera obscura images of Hong Kong are among works that caught our eye
Bulgarian-born Christo, once a refugee, says he scrapped long-planned US project because of ‘that man’, and tells of his hope he can sell art in Hong Kong to fund 150-metre-high sculpture in UAE he planned with his late wife
‘A sculpture of a drawing of a light bulb’ is how artist Michael Craig-Martin describes his Bright Idea 2016, a work that intentionally misleads but has, he hopes, a clear message
Curiously named .com/.cn exhibition, a collaboration between Hong Kong’s K11 Art Foundation and New York’s MoMA PS1, offers sharp and humorous commentary on a hot topic, but demands too much of its audience
Jazz legend Chick Corea, British singer Sophie Barker, Japanese band Bo Ningen and DJs Headhunterz, Goldie and Noah Pred will cater for a range of musical tastes during Hong Kong Art Week
With more art bought through private sale than at auction in 2016, there could be a lot of action at art fair, which opens to VIPs first, and at the scores of gallery exhibitions riding on its coattails.
Canto-pop godfather Roman Tam’s peacock feather gown, Anita Mui’s androgynous outfits, Yonfen's films and Leslie Cheung’s red Manolo Blahniks – M+ show explores sexual ambiguity in Canto-pop and film
These art-inspired refreshments can help you unwind after an exhausting day visiting the various galleries’ stands
With hundreds of art exhibitions and related events happening in Central, Wan Chai and Wong Chuk Hang, we pick out the 10 must-sees
