The Works

Exploring both the imagination of the child and the darkness and nightmares that may accompany it, the American Ballet Theatre’s “Whipped Cream” begins with a young boy gorging on whipped cream to the point of hospitalisation. The two-act ballet takes ...

The past two weeks have seen more records broken in international art auctions. First, auction house Christie’s sold 1,500 objects from “The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller” for US$832.6 million, the highest price paid for a single private co...

You may remember that last week we visited David Zwirner’s new Hong Kong gallery. Well, during Art Basel Hong Kong, the Swiss art gallery Hauser & Wirth also inaugurated their first Asia outpost, and in the same building. Like David Zwirner, Iwan and M...

Art runs in David Zwirner’s family. His father Rudolf is an art dealer and David and his sister were raised surrounded by art. Today, David’s own galleries represent over forty artists and estates. He opened the first of those galleries in New York in ...

The Shinto and Buddhist religions are Japan’s two oldest popular religious traditions. They’re accompanied by a rich mythology and folklore that includes a long list of gods, goddesses, spirits, divine creatures and other supernatural beings. Miwa Koma...

Two weeks ago we spoke to German film director Werner Herzog about his work, including his recent documentary on volcanoes, the distinctions, if any, between fiction and documentary, and the impact of technology on filmmaking. He was here for the Hong ...

Statisticians tell us global inequality is growing, with half of the world’s wealth now in the hands of just 1% of the population. That’s not good news for most of us, but it can be good news for the art market. Millionaires and billionaires with money...

The just ended Art Month had a lot more to offer than visual art. There was something for lovers of performing arts and of cinema too, in the shape of the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival. This year’s film festival,...

With Art Basel and Art Central just over, there are still many exhibitions worth catching up on, but at least now you might have a little more time to relax, take a deep breath, and listen to some interesting local music. “But Tonight, the Boulevard is...

There’s no need for us to remind lovers of the arts, the visual arts in particular, that this is the month we’re spoiled for choice. With Art Basel starting next week, galleries, auction houses and other art organisations are putting their best feet fo...