Art & Culture

This week, when Hong Kong’s arts community should be celebrating the selection of the city’s Venice representative—an artist for whom it should be a career highlight—it is instead reeling. A few days ago, citing a technicality, the government’s Arts Development Council called for restarting the application process, which originally closed in August.

Four distinguished young musicians from Hong Kong and Taiwan will give a concert of Chopin's chamber music in November. Chopin is known as a composer for piano. Nevertheless, he found odd occasions to turn to other forms of composition, like chamber music.

The Arts and Culture Development Fund proudly presents “Cello Recital by Letty Poon” on October 30, 2010 (Saturday) at 3:00pm at Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall.

The animated version of the Riverside Scene at the Qingming Festival, the spectacular digital feature currently on show at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, would be displayed in Hong Kong from Nov. 9 to 29, a local official said on Monday.

Global auction house Sotheby's notched up its best ever sales tally for an Asian auction series in Hong Kong on Friday, hammering off HK$3.08 billion ($400 million) worth of Asian art, jewelry, wine and watches.

Today, on the 4th day of the seven-day Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn 2010 sales series, the sale of Fine Chinese Paintings achieved triumphant results. The sale commanded HK$407 million / US$52.2 million (est. HK$120-174 million / US$15.4-22 million), establishing Sotheby’s Highest-Ever Total for a Various Owners Sale of Fine Chinese Paintings. All but three of the 270 works offered found buyers, which represents and builds on the solid success of our Spring 2010 sale.

Next Monday the fall auction season begins in China with a jam-packed day of sales in Hong Kong. Sotheby’s will begin the market event in the morning with modern and contemporary Southeast Asian paintings, but most collectors will be focused on the afternoon sales, when Sotheby’s and Seoul Auctions will both offer highly-anticipated lots of recent Asian and Western art.

A jade seal of China’s 18th century Qianlong emperor is one of the star attractions at Sotheby’s 3,200-lot Hong Kong auction that may raise HK$1.6 billion ($210 million) in a test of Chinese demand for art.

A Brazilian artist has provoked outrage by unveiling a series of drawings in which he depicts himself assassinating nine world leaders.