A British art dealer who appeared as an expert on a BBC antiques show has pleaded guilty to selling artworks to a suspected financier for Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group. Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, pleaded guilty during a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on Friday to eight charges of failing to disclose potential terrorist…
In its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, the Lung Wah Hotel, a converted, Spanish revival villa, offered a leafy refuge from the bustle of city life, near a cove and surrounded by parks in Hong Kong’s northern New Territories. Winding stairs, flanked by red lanterns, led to a sprawling Chinese-style garden. On summer weekends,…
On a recent cool, damp, overcast afternoon in Hong Kong, a modest crowd of artists, collectors and curious browsers filled a gallery for the opening of “The Flowers of Evil,” an exhibition of fine art photography in an industrial district outside the city center. Visitors emerged from a dusty freight elevator, slipped into a large…
Pearl Lam has been at the forefront of Hong Kong’s art scene for decades — a larger-than-life native-born gallerist who is known in arts circles for speaking her mind and knowing the best restaurants in town. She opened her first gallery, in Shanghai, in 2005, rather than join her family’s development business. She has referred…
The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the roughly 1,400 on display. The century-old building in central Phnom Penh is running out of room partly because foreign collectors and institutions have returned about 300 stolen artifacts over the past…