The Bayeux Tapestry will go on show at the British Museum in London next year after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron of France agreed the historic loan. The display will mark the first time the precious tapestry, which depicts the 1066 Norman invasion and Battle of Hastings, has been in Britain…
From Christian Dior to Gianfranco Ferré and Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior’s legacy is one of the utmost beauty and refinement. Now, UBS House of Craft has partnered with the atelier to connect the designs of all seven creative directors in a single show unlike ever before. Curated by iconic fashion stylist and editor Carine Roitfeld…
Paul Poiret was the self-proclaimed “King of Fashion” in early 20th-century Paris. His designs helped make fashion an art form, freeing women’s bodies from corsets with fantastical garments such as harem pantaloons and lampshade tunics. He introduced bold colours inspired by Fauvism and collaborated with artists such as Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Paul Iribe…
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…
Seven institutions in Egypt will loan more than 200 works to the Hong Kong Palace Museum later this year for a blockbuster show focused on King Tutankhamun, the young pharaoh who ruled Ancient Egypt from around 1332-23BC. Tutankhamun and the Secrets of Saqqara, billed as “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures…
Long before the Chinese smash-hit video game Black Myth: Wukong electrified gamers around the world, sparking new interest in the Buddhist statues and grottoes featured in the game, Katherine Tsiang had already been working for decades on the conservation of such heritage sites and art. A groundbreaking project led by the Chinese-American art researcher involves…
Treasures from the Palace of Versailles outside Paris and The Palace Museum in The Forbidden City in Beijing —both Unesco World Heritage sites—will go on show at the Hong Kong Palace Museum next month (18 December-4 May 2025). The exhibition, The Forbidden City and The Palace of Versailles: China-France Cultural Encounters in the Seventeenth and…