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Art Issue 2023

This Post Magazine series coincides with the first Art Basel art fair since Hong Kong's reopening, with a list of must-sees during art week, artist interviews and all you need to know about auction houses' big plans for the city.

Updated: 20 Mar, 2023
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Art Basel Hong Kong and M+ museum for debate in Post panel discussion

As Art Basel Hong Kong opens, some are asking if the city is losing its edge as an arts hub. An expert panel, hosted live and online by the Post on March 23, will discuss the fair and the city’s art scene.

16 Mar, 2023
Art Basel Hong Kong 2023 is the first edition of the fair since Covid restrictions lifted, and some are asking if Hong Kong is losing its edge as an arts hub.  Photo: Art Basel
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Art Basel week: 11 must-see shows opening around the Hong Kong art fair

Hong Kong’s largest contemporary art fair is the cue for a rash of exhibition openings. We pick 11 you should not miss, featuring works by Rashid Johnson, exiled Ukrainian artists and Documenta 15 curators Ruangrupa.

20 Mar, 2023
Seascape “Walk on By”, 2022, by Rashid Johnson, whose debut Asia show is one of our 11 must-see exhibitions opening in Hong Kong in the week of the Art Basel Hong Kong contemporary art fair.
Photo: Rashid Johnson/Hauser & Wirth
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Auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips expand in Hong Kong

Auction houses in Hong Kong have announced moves to new, in-house facilities where they’ll host year-round sales as in London and New York – a bold departure from their current sale model.

18 Mar, 2023
Christie’ auctioneer Rahul Kadakia takes bids at an auction in Hong Kong. 
Photo: Keith Tsuji/Getty Images
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US artist Rashid Johnson on his creative journey, ahead of Hong Kong show

With his first solo exhibition in Asia about to open in Hong Kong, American artist Rashid Johnson paints us a personal portrait of his artistic journey as we look at his art over the years.

17 Mar, 2023
Artist Rashid Johnson. With his first solo exhibition in Asia about to open in Hong Kong, the American artist paints us a personal portrait of his creative journey. Photo: Axel Dupeux / Hauser & Wirth
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Profile | ‘Mafia of the art world’: curator Pi Li on Beijing’s CAFA fine arts academy

Tai Kwun’s head of art tells Kate Whitehead about being part of the ‘mafia of the Chinese art world’, his decade at ‘one of the greatest museum projects of the 21st century’, M+, and his faith in Hong Kong’s future.

19 Mar, 2023
Tai Kwun’s head of art Dr Pi Li (above) inherited his love of art from his father, and has spent his life following his passion, from Beijing to Glasgow and Hong Kong. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
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Restaurants and bars celebrate Hong Kong art week with artsy menus

Art Basel returns to Hong Kong this month, and restaurants and bars in the city are celebrating with artsy menus featuring everything from a Banksy-inspired dessert to surrealist cocktails.

17 Mar, 2023
The Mira hotel’s art-themed tea set. Art Basel returns to Hong Kong this month, and bars and restaurants are celebrating with special menus to excite the eyes and taste buds. Photo: Coco
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What A View | Art on TV: fake art, the greatest painters, the National Gallery Singapore

Was peddler of fake art Ann Friedman ‘gullible and ambitious’ or ‘one of the stupidest people to have ever worked at an art gallery’? It’s one of many fascinating questions and facts about art in TV shows and films.

17 Mar, 2023
Art handlers hold a 1910 painting by Wassily Kandinsky, “Murnau mit Kirche II” (Murnau with Church II), which recently sold for US$45 million. Kandinsky is one of the artists featured in Netflix series “The Greatest Painters in the World”. Photo:  Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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‘The simplest, dumbest materials’: how art gallery stands out by blending in

The architects behind Hong Kong’s Kiang Malingue gallery took a 1960s tenement building back to its bare bones, removing two floors to create exhibition spaces, and painted the exterior silver.

16 Mar, 2023
The silver facade of Kiang Malingue Gallery in Sik On Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Architects turned a slim, six-storey 1960s tenement building into a stripped-back four-storey exhibition space. Photo: Xu Liang Leon
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64,000 chopsticks for a Jackie Chan picture – artist’s incredible creations

The ambitious works of visual artist Red Hong Yi – including her 2014 work of Jackie Chan made out of chopsticks – are the subject of her first book, How To Paint Without a Brush.

19 Mar, 2023
Red Hong Yi’s portrait of Jackie Chan was created from 
64,000 bamboo chopsticks. Photo: Red Hong Yi
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‘Grow better human beings’: why these Hong Kong artists became farmers

Farmer-artists Natalie Lo and Laurent Gutierrez discuss traditional farming, food ethics, sufficiency, and the highs and lows of their mixed callings in a post-pandemic Hong Kong.

19 Mar, 2023
Farmer-artists Natalie Lo and Laurent Gutierrez at the SangWood KidsClub farm in Shek Kong, Hong Kong. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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Language Matters | Text-based art: what is trying to say? And is it really art?

American conceptual artist Mel Bochner’s text-based works prompt critical reactions about language and communication. So too, in its own way, does the graffiti of Hong Kong’s “King of Kowloon”.

19 Mar, 2023
Visitors to Art Basel Hong Kong in 2015 contemplate American conceptual artist Mel Bochner’s “All or nothing”. Text-based art challenges our perceptions of what art is, and our understanding of the meaning of words. Photo: Facebook@Art Basel