Hong Kong

Shortly after canceling the New York edition of 2024, Photofairs has announced the Hong Kong edition for 2025. The event will be held between March 26 and March 30, during the Hong Kong Art Week. It will be hosted at the Central…

A Jean-Michel Basquiat painting was the star of an evening sale at Philips Hong Kong, selling for $12.6 million. The 1982 work Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari had a pre-sale estimate of $12 million. Selling for…

Despite speculations of a cooling market, Hauser & Wirth opened another space in Hong Kong last week. The street-level gallery opened in the busy central district of Hong Kong. The inaugural exhibition featured Chinese artist Zhang…

Sotheby’s announces $8 billion of projected sales in 2022, along with expansion in Hong Kong. The $8 billion figure is the new record for the auction house in any given year, surpassing last year’s $7.3 billion. It is also much higher…

The $15-20 million auction of a T-Rex skeleton in Hong Kong by Christie’s has been canceled over concerns about how many bones in it were replicas. The T-Rex, which was nicknamed “Shen”, was scheduled to go on the auction block in…

With works from Picasso, Sotheby’s Hong Kong Evening sale of modern and contemporary art closed with a combined sales of $164.2 million. The much-anticipated sale occurred after a number of obstacles. First, there was a tense political…

The newly opened M+ Museum in Hong Kong was given a significant donation of works by Chinese artist Zao Wou-Ki by his family. Zao Wou-Ki is considered one of the greatest modern artists - not just in China, but in entire Asia. Zao was…

After weeks of speculation, Art Basel has finally announced moving the Hong Kong fair from March to May. Despite the rising third wave of COVID-19, Art Basel had kept the schedule of the fair intact until earlier this year. A few days…

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A monument made in memorial of the Tiananmen Square massacre in a Hong Kong University was dismantled earlier this week. The Pillar of Shame, as the sculpture is known, was built by artist Jens Galschiøt to commemorate the 8th…