Next year, Art Basel Hong Kong will happen in mid-March—a sartorial and navigational godsend for all involved. There were rumors that one Angelina Jolie flew in on Sunday—but these turned out to be just rumors. Buoyed by recent acquisitions, perhaps she was blown off course. >> Read more
Following the week that was the first edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong, we have much to look back on — though perhaps not as much as we expected. Certainly, the Basel Effect manifested itself in a number of ways. One could detect it in relative absence of kitsch and tat amongst the booths... >> Read more
Katharina Grosse is one of the leading artists working in the area of Expanded Painting, a field, in every sense, that encompasses extremely divergent practices, yet which always share an interest in the physical fundamentals of painting and paint – hue, light, material, surface, production – to explore directly the nature of painting itself and the ways people experience it. >> Read more
"River of Fundament", an operatic, five-hour-long film created by Matthew Barney in 2014, was presented in Asia for the first time last September; it is known in translation as Chongsheng zhi He— literally “River of Rebirth —which is believed to be the film's subject. >> Read more
The "surprising package" in question here is Selina Abromovic (aka "Baby No 1") on the "Sexy Hotline" that, using the template of late-night sex advertisements on German TV >> Read more
Browsing through the exhibition “A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong Story” provides a deja vu of flipping through somebody’s diary - where narratives are punctuated by remnants of past events including cinema tickets and candy wrappers. >> Read more