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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

Supervised by the Ministry of Culture, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) presents the biennial celebration of Asian contemporary art – the 8th Asian Art Biennial, which opens on October 30. >> Read more

Simon Mordant is one of Australia’s most prolific art collectors and philanthropists. As chair of Australia’s Museum of Contemporary Art and as Australia’s past Venice Biennale Pavilion Commissioner, Mordant has been one of the major forces driving modernization of Australia’s visual arts scene. >> Read more

A prize is always as much about the giver as the receiver. This year’s inaugural Sigg Prize, successor to the esteemed Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), was as much about M+ as it was about the winner, Hong Kong’s own Samson Yung. >> Read more

In celebration of Hong Kong Art Week and the opening of our two March exhibitions, Xavier Cha - Ruthless Logic and Jes Fan - Mother Is A Woman, Empty Gallery will host an all-night opening party featuring a performance of speculative bebop and imaginary free jazz by the London/Paris-based acoustic quartet Ahmed followed by an evening of intense leftfield dance music brought to us by DJs Cera Khin, Mumdance & Logos, and Rob Hall. RSVP is essential. >> Read more

Marlborough Galleries, founded in London in 1946, was the first modern International gallery, opening in Rome in 1962 and in New York in 1963, followed by other cities around the world, becoming the prototype for all subsequent International galleries. Ran Dian spoke with Gilbert Lloyd, son of founder Frank Lloyd and Managing Director of Marlborough from 1972 until 1991. >> Read more

The Mainland and Hong Kong aren’t the same story. And yet, at this historical juncture, the two are connected. >> Read more

THE ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW RETURNS FOR ITS 10TH EDITION NEXT SPRING Unveiling Important New Features at the First Event in Hong Kong Art Week >> Read more

Photofairs may be selling more ideas than artwork, and if the attendance of talks is any indication, the public seem to be eagerly absorbing it. >> Read more

In the new body of paintings by Mairead O’hEocha, Blackbirds in the Garden of Prisms2, or as Wallace Stevens determined, suggesting a contribution to something greater than its singular self >> Read more