From developing The Pawn and Duddell’s restaurants to co-founding Design Trust and chairing Para Site art center, Alan Lo has helped to redefine Hong Kong’s culinary and cultural scenes. A longtime arts philanthropist, the entrepreneur, developer, and collector established the Singapore-based Yenn and Alan Lo Foundation (YAL Foundation) with his wife in 2022, which fosters…
Treasures from the Palace of Versailles, just outside Paris, and The Palace Museum in The Forbidden City in Beijing—both Unesco World Heritage Sites—are on show at the Hong Kong Palace Museum (until 4 May). The exhibition, The Forbidden City and The Palace of Versailles: China-France Cultural Encounters in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, throws new light…
How to Be Happy Together, Para Site, 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Rd, Quarry Bay, until 6 April The iconography of Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai looms over both sides of Victoria Harbour this year. Along with Ho Tzu Nyen’s reenvisioning of his oeuvre on the M+ façade, on Hong Kong Island, Wong…
Muted expectations had given way to cautious optimism by the closing of Art Basel Hong Kong’s (ABHK) VIP preview on 26 March, with dealers buoyed by an influx of new faces from East and Southeast Asia. “I think I’m very happy!” said Claudia Albertini, a senior director at Massimo De Carlo, on the opening evening….
Carl Kostyál is the latest gallerist to open a space in Hong Kong’s Wong Chuk Hang area. In recent years, the former industrial hub, located on the southern part of Hong Kong Island, has experienced significant development, with projects encompassing art galleries, shopping centres, residential living and office buildings. Adding to spaces in Stockholm, London…
Art Market Maxwell Rabb Interior view of Art Basel Hong Kong, 2025. Courtesy of Art Basel. A spirited, diverse audience brought a palpable buzz to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre as Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 got its VIP day underway on March 26th. The 12th edition of the fair features 240 galleries…
Hong Kong boasts a long list of attributes over its relatively short history, but among the most enduring is its status as a free port. Along with a complete absence of import duties, the city’s logistics capacities have been honed over the past century. However, amid escalating tariff threats, free trade is starting to seem…
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. When Hong Kong‘s M+ opened in 2021 after over a decade in development, the contemporary art museum instantly became central to the city’s art ecosystem, putting on ambitious exhibitions of both Asian…
While Hong Kong’s economy has rebounded since lifting severe Covid-era travel restrictions at the end of 2022, the city has still not yet fully recovered. Last year, the city posted a moderate GDP growth of 2.6 percent, with this year’s expected to be about the same. But how that translates to the art market at…
This edition showcases the work of Pacita Abad, the late Filipino-born American Ivatan visual artist, presented by Tina Kim Gallery (New York) and Silverlens (Manila, New York) Courtesy of Art Basel Hong Kong With world-class bars and restaurants, incredible shopping, and beautiful hiking trails—you’ll find fun in just about every corner of Hong Kong. There’s…