Arts of Hong Kong 2020: Project NEXT Wave by City Contemporary Dance Company (Preview)

HONG KONG – Following the premiere of A Lover’s Concerto, Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) continues their Digital Dance Season 2020 with Project NEXT Wave this October. Featuring original productions by young, emerging choreographers, CCDC gathers company dancers Felix Ke and Christy Poinsettia Ma, and HK promising independent artist KT Yau to collaborate on choreographic ideas exploring the topics of presence, life and value. While still … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong 2020: Project NEXT Wave by City Contemporary Dance Company (Preview)

Art What!: It’s done‽ at Mizuma Gallery

Mizuma Gallery has announced It’s done‽, a group exhibition featuring five Indonesian artists: Agan Harahap, Albert Yonathan Setyawan, Julian Abraham “Togar”, Melati Suryodarmo, and Mella Jaarsma. The issue of an artwork’s completion is a perennial one that will incessantly linger in an artist’s mind until he or she claims that it is decidedly finished. Or alternatively, until the artwork reaches the sight of its first … Continue reading Art What!: It’s done‽ at Mizuma Gallery

Art What!: BMW Art Journey winner Leelee Chan begins her journey to explore the possibilities of ancient and future materials

BMW Art Journey winner Leelee Chan, represented by Capsule Shanghai gallery, begins her journey across Europe in September 2020 to explore the possibilities of ancient and future materials, while bringing herself into dialogues with craftspeople, innovators and scientists. Leelee Chan is the ninth recipient of the BMW Art Journey, a collaboration between Art Basel and BMW since 2015, created to recognize and support emerging artists … Continue reading Art What!: BMW Art Journey winner Leelee Chan begins her journey to explore the possibilities of ancient and future materials

Art What!: Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms to feature over 100 galleries this September

Live from 23rd to 26th September and featuring 100 Art Basel galleries from 28 countries and territories, Art Basel’s ‘OVR:2020’ will be exclusively dedicated to works made this year. This new format will give participating galleries the opportunity to present tightly curated exhibitions, showing up to six works simultaneously. Collectors will be able to discover 600 exceptional works created in 2020 by established and emerging … Continue reading Art What!: Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms to feature over 100 galleries this September

Arts of Hong Kong 2020: A Lover’s Concerto Episode 1 by City Contemporary Dance Company (Review)

HONG KONG – Of all the artistic mediums, it feels like it is dance that has adapted surprisingly well to the new normal, with many companies working in tandem with filmmakers and videographers to enhance already arresting choreography with smart camera angles and film techniques. The latest of these companies to join the growing number of dance film-makers is Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC), … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong 2020: A Lover’s Concerto Episode 1 by City Contemporary Dance Company (Review)

Arts of Hong Kong 2020: A Lover’s Concerto by City Contemporary Dance Company (Preview)

HONG KONG – Playing as part of Tai Kwun’s On Stage Online series of performing arts programmes and their own Digital Dance Season, Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) presents A Lover’s Concerto, where different generations of couples who all met at CCDC perform a choreographed piece recreating their lasting memories, leading the audience in an exploration of relationships through interactions and by feeling each other’s … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong 2020: A Lover’s Concerto by City Contemporary Dance Company (Preview)

Art What!: Tai Kwun launches new performing arts series ‘On Stage Online’ (Hong Kong)

HONG KONG – Tai Kwun—Centre for Heritage and Arts has announced a brand-new series of performing arts programmes, On Stage Online. Running from September to October, over 10 programmes are currently programmed, with the first six programmes to premiere this month across various platforms. In thinking about how the arts and society are inextricably bound, responding and reacting to one another, the performing arts has … Continue reading Art What!: Tai Kwun launches new performing arts series ‘On Stage Online’ (Hong Kong)

Art What!: Planet or Plastic? at the ArtScience Museum

‘Bird’s Nest’ by Mandy Baker. Here, she captures how discarded fishing line that has formed nest-like balls due to tidal movements of the ocean. Collecting other debris in their path, they come to resemble jellyfish or other marine creatures, both alluringly alien and eerie in knowing that these are made of harmful plastics. Climate change and environmental conservation are some of the biggest issues of … Continue reading Art What!: Planet or Plastic? at the ArtScience Museum

Art What!: Art Basel announces new Online Viewing Rooms with two editions in September and October

Art Basel has announced new Online Viewing Rooms concept, with two freestanding, thematic editions taking place in September and October Featuring no more than 100 galleries in each edition and running over the course of four days, this new format will give Art Basel galleries the opportunity to present tightly curated exhibitions drawn from their programs, showing six works simultaneously. Live from 23rd to 28th … Continue reading Art What!: Art Basel announces new Online Viewing Rooms with two editions in September and October

Art What!: David Zwirner Hong Kong presents William Eggleston

David Zwirner presents an exhibition of the American photographer William Eggleston’s medium and large-format photographs from the 1970s, many of which have never been exhibited before. On view at the gallery’s Hong Kong location, this exhibition marks the artist’s debut solo presentation in Greater China. William Eggleston was born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he lives today. William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest, an exhibition … Continue reading Art What!: David Zwirner Hong Kong presents William Eggleston