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Dinh Q. Lê Finds Beauty in Tragedy

Viewing an artwork can be a very powerful experience and the memory may stay with you for a long time. The impact can be even greater for the artist who created it. One of the most powerful works for Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê is a series he first created in 1997, shortly after returning to Vietnam—the homeland he had fled when he was 10 years old. Titled “Cambodia: Splendor and Darkness,” the series comprised photographic portraits of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime woven together with shots of the exquisite wall carvings at Angkor Wat. “There are certain bodies of work you’ve done, you feel it’s completed and you let it go, and some others that stay with you. I think this body was kind of, maybe haunting is not the word, but I always felt it was not complete; for a variety of reasons. At the time, I was only using photography, which had a lot of limitations; I really hate the glossy surface of photography, its plastic feel, and I always felt this body of work needs to ...

Sparkling Innovation - Can the right music enhance your champagne tasting experience?

For the last three years Krug Champagne has been inviting musicians as varied as soul singer Gregory Porter, modern jazz master Jacky Terrasson and the French indie pop duo The Dø to taste its annual offerings and then custom-tailor a music list that best reflects their experience. The list is made available through the Krug Apps which pair every Krug bottle with the right music thanks to a six-digit ID code on the back of each bottle. Last year, British soul singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas was asked to find a pairing for “Les Créations de 2004,” a limited edition tribute comprising the latest vintage alongside the Krug Grande Cuvée 160th Edition (Les Créations de 2004 are served in-flight in Singapore Airlines’ Suites and First Class). The singer chose to pair that vintage with her hit single ‘Unstoppable’ remarking, “Just as the lyrics talk about being carried ‘to another galaxy’, if you close your eyes when tasting Krug 2004 you are transported by its aromas and flav...

The Art of Evolution; Theo Jansen's Strandbeests

Every spring a new Strandbeest (beach animal in Dutch) is ‘ born ’ on the northern beaches of Holland. The strange-looking creature with spindly legs and wings on its back will then take its first steps, gently coaxed by its ‘father’, Theo Jansen, and slowly learns to adapt to its seaside environment before becoming dying in the fall. The Strandbeest is actually a wind-powered kinetic sculpture that blurs the lines between art, engineering, and science. Surprisingly in the hi-tech age of computerized Artificial Intelligence, they are built out of rather mundane materials (PVC tubes, zip ties, recycled plastic bottles) yet the beach animals can not only walk on their own but can also react to their environment having developed over time a sense of self preservation. Jansen refuses to label his sophisticated kinetic sculptures as artworks and instead refers to them as a fast evolving new species on earth, dividing each generation into time periods and giving them scientific...

Zao Wou-Ki: Master Printmaker — Asia’s First Major Retrospective

Zao Wou-Ki Untitled 1960 etching and aquatint Zao Wou-Ki occupies a rare position in twentieth-century abstraction: a Chinese-born artist fully at home in Paris, yet one who never abandoned the visual memory of his early training in ink and calligraphy. His work synthesised Eastern technique with European modernism, creating a vocabulary entirely his own. From December 13, 2025 to May 3, 2026, M+ in Hong Kong presents Zao Wou-Ki: Master Printmaker , Asia's first major exhibition dedicated entirely to the artist's graphic works. While Zao is often celebrated for his monumental canvases, this retrospective repositions his work on paper as a laboratory of invention—revealing a practice as exploratory and rigorous as his painting. Zao Wou-Ki Piazza Siena 1951 oil on canvas The exhibition will comprise nearly 180 works, spanning five decades and covering Zao’s development from early post-war experiments in Paris to his late-1990s explorations. Early pieces show his...

Hong Kong’s New Golden Age - How the Hong Kong art scene is consolidating its premier position as the commercial art hub of Asia

Great ideas are often born out of necessity and Hong Kong’s latest commercial art jewel, H Queen’s, is no exception having been conceived by architect William Lim’s frustration with the inconvenience of having to trek around the city to seek out various contemporary art galleries. “The galleries used to be on Hollywood Road and I would walk from one end to the other and visit around 10 galleries in one go. But around six years ago, some of these spaces started to be replaced by restaurants and other retailers, and galleries started to move into office buildings,” explains Lim, adding that having to pass through these buildings’ security checks could add to the frustration. “So after a while I just stopped going to these galleries, and only really visited the Pedder Building regularly — because it has a good concentration of art galleries — and a few galleries in the Soho area,” recalls Lim, who is also a well-known collector of Hong Kong contemporary art. Though Hong Kong...

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