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Mark Bradford poses with students in front of a mural in Sham Shui Po created as part of gallery Hauser & Wirth’s Education Lab in Hong Kong. The American artist’s exhibition at the gallery runs until March 1, 2025. Photo: Ivan Chan

How US artist Mark Bradford teamed up with Hong Kong students

Currently showing at Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong, acclaimed artist Mark Bradford made a Los Angeles-style mural with Sham Shui Po students.

Currently showing at Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong, acclaimed artist Mark Bradford made a Los Angeles-style mural with Sham Shui Po students

Opinion | More pandas are great, but let’s also grow Hong Kong as a city of art

Christie’s CEO on Asia expansion and hopes for rebound in Europe

Can you really distil the taste of whisky in an art installation?

When The Fabrick Lab founder was tapped to create an art piece for The Macallan House Hong Kong, she found one crucial connection: colour

Elaine Ng and her whisky-inspired installation, Phantasmagoria. Photo: Alexander Mak

Protesters throw soup on Van Goghs again after climate activists sentenced

Two Sunflowers paintings were targeted in London soon after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland got jail terms for a similar act in 2022.

Rediscover the Chinese designer who dressed Beyoncé and Lady Gaga, with M+ at Night

Hong Kong’s leading art museum is coming alive after dark with Couture Rhapsody, a one-off collision of music, art and fashion themed around the blockbuster ‘Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination’ exhibition.

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This artist is using AI to put ‘Asian aunties’ in seriously surreal situations

The Singaporean artist was an architect before getting into AI-driven art which has since led to a Ted talk, a Christie’s 3.0 charity auction, and billboards in New York’s Times Square and now Hollywood

Niceaunties’ surreal AI antics featuring Asia’s beloved aunties make it to auctions – and to Hollywood. Photos: Handout

How the ‘father of modern art in Nepal’s legacy is being preserved today

The father of modern art in Nepal, Bangdel remains largely uncelebrated outside his homeland. Now, an exhibition in Hong Kong is offering a window into the late master’s legacy

Low Van Gogh price sets tone for debut Christie’s sale at new Asia HQ

US$27.6 million for early Van Gogh work a good price, observer says as Christie’s talks up results of auction where most bidding was low.

5 must-see Hong Kong exhibitions and shows this weekend, September 27-30

Discover the origins of Chinese civilisation, see works by American artist Mark Bradford, catch a multimedia dance spectacle and more.

Installation view of “Tao Hui: In the Land Beyond Living” at Tai Kwun, one of our picks of art exhibitions and dance shows this weekend in Hong Kong, which also includes The Accountants and an exhibition of American artist Mark Bradford. Photo: Tai Kwun

Who is Michael Strahan’s eldest daughter Tanita – who just had a baby?

Michael Strahan celebrated becoming a grandfather on Fox’s NFL Sunday recently, after his daughter with ex-wife Wanda Hutchins gave birth to a son named Onyx.

Michael Strahan is happy to have become a grandfather for the first time, after his daughter Tanita recently gave birth to a son. Photos: @michaelstrahan, @tanitaa.st/Instagram

Inuit facial tattoos return as Greenland’s women go back to their roots

Inuit facial tattoos are becoming more popular among Greenlandic women in what many see as a reappropriation of their culture and heritage.

Hong Kong to host auction of Mark Rothko piece once owned by fugitive Jho Low

Sotheby’s says sale of Untitled (Yellow and Blue) represents Asia’s first auction of late artist’s major work.

World’s first AI arts museum to open in US in 2025

The brainchild of visual artist Refik Anadol, Dataland will be the world’s first museum of AI arts when it opens in Los Angeles.

People walk past an AI-generated video art installation by artist Refik Anadol entitled ‘Large Nature Model: Coral’ to promote power of technology and sustainability at United Nations Headquarters on September 20, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION

Donald Judd’s designs simplified the complex so viewers could enjoy a pure experience

The American artist and designer believed his deceptively minimalist works would allow viewers to enjoy them in their purest form

Donald Judd’s timeless furniture design blends art and functionality. Pictured: Narrow Frame Chair, 101 Spring Street, Judd Foundation, New York, from new book Donald Judd Furniture (2024). Photo: Handout

Exclusive | Art can override geopolitics, drive Hong Kong tourism: Italian princess

Princess Camilla of Bourbon Two Sicilies says Hong Kong can be Asia’s art capital as she auctions her prized Van Gogh masterpiece.

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‘Violent, reckless, senseless’: sculpture by China’s Ai Weiwei smashed in Italy

The museum will replace the work “Porcelain Cube” with a print and label explaining the incident.

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He no longer recognised Hong Kong scenes so he paints how they used to look

When Chow Chun-fai could not find a crossroads in Mong Kok, it led him to produce paintings of street views that combine present and past.

Chow Chun-fai next to his painting As Tears Go By 1988 at Mahjong School Portland Street (2024), part of his solo exhibition “Map of Amnesia” at Tang Contemporary Art in Central, Hong Kong. His paintings in the show depict city scenes as they are now and once were. Photo: Jelly Tse

MoMA director on why museums of modern art must live in the present

Glenn Lowry, director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art for 30 years, addressed the role of such museums during a visit to Hong Kong’s M+.

The women preserving Japan’s ‘beautiful’ 1,000-year-old cotton ball craft

Handmade in Japan for centuries, temari can sell for hundreds of US dollars. Some women still ‘bring joy’ by their dedication to the craft.

The state of the art: China’s graduates out of work despite culture craze

Though China’s interest in the arts is at an all-time high, a glut of graduates remains unsure of the field’s career prospects.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Christie’s unveils lavish new Asia HQ at Hong Kong’s The Henderson

The new venue, which spans 4 floors in The Henderson and will hold first sales on September 26, signals a commitment to ‘prestige’ and Hong Kong.

The clients’ lounge at Christie’s new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong’s The Henderson. Photo: Christie’s

Mural paintings make a bullet-scarred neighbourhood ‘proud’

Civil war and gang violence left a Central American neighbourhood scarred. Painting huge murals on housing blocks heralds a brighter future.

Guo Pei’s been sewing since childhood – then Rihanna looked her up

The fashion designer tells Kate Whitehead about helping Rihanna shine like a diamond at the Met Gala, and why she is now focused on putting China in the spotlight.

Johannesburg artist breathes ‘energy and life’ into city’s decayed spaces

Berlin-based artist Robin Rhode is known for transforming abandoned spaces in Johannesburg. He shares why the city keeps calling him back.

South African artist Robin Rhode at the Stevenson Gallery in Johannesburg. Photo: AFP

Grey matters: actor Brenda Chan on creating a festival for elder artists

The Hong Kong Creative Aging Arts Festival features more than 100 artists aged 55 and older, and its closing show will explore the challenges of living a mature life in the city

Actor Brenda Chan, founder of the Hong Kong Creative Aging Arts Festival. Photo: HKCAAF

Designs of the times – 3 new-generation Hong Kong tattoo parlours

Tattoos in Hong Kong were once the province of triads and Western sailors. Today skin art is a form of artistic expression and widely seen. We talk to some of the artists creating it.

Review | The 2024 Gwangju Biennale is full of superb art. But it also trips up

Asia’s largest contemporary art exhibition, the 2024 Gwangju Biennale is enthralling, intriguing – and smacks of political correctness.

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Elaine Ng and her whisky-inspired installation, Phantasmagoria. Photo: Alexander Mak

Can you really distil the taste of whisky in an art installation?

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Elaine Ng and her whisky-inspired installation, Phantasmagoria. Photo: Alexander Mak

Can you really distil the taste of whisky in an art installation?

Reading Time:7 minutes
A panoramic view of public housing estate Wah Fu Estate in Pokfulam, in 1968. Photo: SCMP Archive

Was Wah Fu Estate the first upscale housing complex in Hong Kong?

Reading Time:1 minute
Chronic pain can be debilitating, leaving sufferers in a downward spiral of inactivity that exacerbates discomfort. Now, therapists are confronting the issue with treatments that address body and mind. Photo: Shutterstock

The psychology of chronic pain: why resting can do more harm than good

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Japanese fruit tomato at Nabe-Dokoro Sessyu in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

Goodbye, truffle and gold leaf – quiet luxury has made it to fine dining

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“Our climate change, our political systems’ failures, AI, all this I call science-fiction realism,” says Chinese science-fiction writer, Chen Qiufan. Illustration: Bo Law

Why Chinese science fiction is having more than a moment

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Elaine Ng Yan Ling this week’s print issue of PostMag. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

This week in PostMag: unexpected art, Chinese sci-fi, and a pain-free life

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