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Art Issue 2024

This Post Magazine series coincides with the annual Art Basel art fair in Hong Kong, with an interview with the gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin, the artist Yang Fudong, the director of Guimet Museum, Yannick Lintz, and of course, a list of must-see exhibitions around the city.

Updated: 04 Apr, 2024
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Hong Kong Art Week: all the must-see fairs, exhibitions and events

From Art Basel and Art Central to smaller fairs, exhibitions and screenings, these are the must-sees in Hong Kong Art Week. If they look like a lot, don’t worry – some of them run all month and beyond.

24 Mar, 2024
Train (1986), Xiyadie. Photo: Xiyadie
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‘We bring culture to your city’: gallerist on Hong Kong woes, unusual costume

French gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin explains how helping artists realise their dreams once saw him dress up as male genitalia and why Hong Kong should make more effort to accommodate foreign galleries.

24 Mar, 2024
PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 23: Emmanuel Perrotin and Takashi Murakami attend the Opening of the 40th Edition of the FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair at Grand Palais on October 23, 2013 in Paris, France Photo: Getty Images
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‘Great art films can be shot in Hong Kong’: Chinese artist on M+ movie

Chinese filmmaker and painter Yang Fudong explains the premise of his latest film, showing on the giant M+ facade, and why ‘abundant’ Hong Kong makes it the ideal city in which to shoot artistic movies.

23 Mar, 2024
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Yang Fudong - Sparrow on the Sea, 2024 Co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel, presented by UBS, 2024. Photo: Yang Fudong
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Magazine-shredding artist Movana Chen on using paper to ‘make love’

The Hong Kong artist known for using shredded magazine paper to knit clothes tells Kate Whitehead how her unusual medium has helped her make a world of friends, and why she still writes love letters.

25 Mar, 2024
Movana Chen at her Knitting Conversations exhibition ongoing at M+. The Hong Kong artist, best known for her clothes knitted from shredded magazines, reveals how her work has helped her forge friendships all around the world. Photo: Edmond So
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Chinese diaspora art celebrated in Wifredo Lam exhibition in Hong Kong

Cuban-born artist Wifredo Lam spent time in France and Spain in the 1920s and 30s, and his surreal paintings, given a solo show in Hong Kong for the first time, reflect his multicultural influences.

24 Mar, 2024
Detail from Damballah, 1947, oil on canvas, by Wifredo Lam, from the collection of Daniel Boulakia. Cuban-born Lam’s works are well known outside Asia, but a newly opened solo exhibition in Hong Kong is the first in the city. Photo: Asia Society, Hong Kong
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‘It’s not revenge’: restitution at Europe’s largest museum of Asian art

The president of Europe’s largest museum of Asian art, Paris’ Guimet, talks about restitution and repatriation, and the importance of collaboration, ahead of her panel discussion at the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

22 Mar, 2024
Musée Guimet’s collection is easily one of the largest Asian art collections in Europe, with the only notable competitors in size being the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum, both in London. Photo: Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts
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Art is part of the furniture in this Hong Kong home: it ‘inspires creativity’

A Hong Kong art gallery owner’s hilltop family home in the New Territories is a kaleidoscope of vibrant, fun artworks – every room inspires creativity and tells a different story.

22 Mar, 2024
photographic mosaic Khmer Reamker, by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê, in the living room of the Sai Kung home of Katie de Tilly of Hong Kong art gallery 10 Chancery Lane. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits
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When sculptor Henry Moore was celebrated in a Hong Kong exhibition

British sculptor Henry Moore’s life and work was celebrated in an exhibition in Hong Kong in 1986, opened by the Duchess of Kent, and an extensive catalogue published in Chinese and English in 1987.

28 Mar, 2024
British sculptor Henry Moore’s life was celebrated in an exhibition in Hong Kong in 1986, opened by the Duchess of Kent (above), and an extensive catalogue, published in Chinese and English in 1987. Photo: SCMP
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From The Louvre to New York, 10 places to see dazzling ceiling art

Yes, there’s the Sistine Chapel at The Vatican, but there’s more dazzling ceiling art to admire elsewhere, from Edinburgh to Kathmandu, in churches, a temple, a monastery, a mosque, a mansion and a museum.

24 Mar, 2024
Some of the finest art in the world is above our heads, so next time you are in the lavish Apollo Gallery at The Louvre in Paris (above), do look up. The same goes for other dazzling examples of ceiling art around the world we’ve picked out. Photo: Ronan O’Connell
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Home From Home | My UK home is an art gallery dedicated to my memories of Hong Kong

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.

22 Mar, 2024
An interpretation of Van Gogh’s chair, by Cliff Buddle’s son. Photo: SCMP
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Asian artists provide feast for the senses at Tai Kwun Artists’ Night

Artist’s Night at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun heritage arts centre spotlights three Asian artists, as well as one South African, in an eclectic programme featuring sonic and visual installations.

27 Mar, 2024
Indonesian duo Senyawa will present a live music installation at this year’s Tai Kwun Artists’ Night. Photo: Tai Kwun
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Destinations Known | 5-star hotels with the best art collections – think Dali, Botero, Murakami

Luxury hotels vie to stand out from the pack through their art collections and programmes. Experts rate properties in Beijing, Hong Kong and Japan, but seem to agree two hotels are a cut above the rest.

21 Mar, 2024
Detail from Fernando Botero’s sculpture Woman With Fruit (1996) at The Dolder Grand hotel in Zurich, Switzerland.
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10 Asian films about artists – one with Martin Scorsese as Vincent van Gogh

From Martin Scorsese as Vincent van Gogh in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, to Kenji Sawada-led Yumeji and The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway, 10 of the best films made in Asia about artists and their art.

28 Mar, 2024
Choi Min-sik in a still from Chihwaseon (2002).
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Reflections | Before burnt paper offerings, Chinese buried ceramic figures with their dead

The practice of burying the dead with funerary objects began in China over 3,000 years ago. At first of bronze or clay, they were superseded by ceramic ‘sancai’ wares. Today these are coveted as ornaments.

24 Mar, 2024
A “sancai” ceramic horse from eighth-century China that would have been buried in the tomb of its master. Such objects are valued today as household ornaments. Photo: Getty Images