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Filipino Artist Ronald Ventura Is Making Connections Across Cultures

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Filipino Artist Ronald Ventura Is Making Connections Across Cultures

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Magnificent Patek Philippe Clocks Coming Up at Sotheby’s HK

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Mosaic Music Festival Returns with Stronger Asian Line-up

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“O’Clock: Time Design, Design Time” Headed for Beijing

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The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara @ Asia Society Museum, NY

Asia Society Museum in NY presents an exhibition of spectacular Buddhist sculptures, architectural reliefs and works of gold and bronze from the Gandhara region of Pakistan, most never exhibited before in the United States.

Painted Threads, Hidden Truths: Abi Dionisio at FOCUS London

At this year's FOCUS Art Fair London at the Saatchi Gallery, Abi Dionisio's mini-exhibition When Threads Take Turns stands out immediately. Her paintings are trompe l'œil works that look like embroidered fabric at first glance—you have to do a double take to realize you're looking at paint on canvas. It's a clever trick, but it's also the key to understanding what she's actually doing. Dionisio pairs small, detailed embroideries with large-scale paintings that reproduce the reverse side of the stitched work. From the back of an embroidery, you see thread knots, loose ends, and the structural work that holds the image together. That's what she paints. The gesture is simple but profound: she's showing us that meaning exists on both sides. The finished, polished surface tells only half the story. The hidden side—the labor, the time, the technique—is equally real and equally important. This approach runs through her entire practice. Every stitch is a ma...

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...

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...

From Memory to Joy: Chun Kwang Young's Chromatic Evolution

Chun Kwang Young - Courtesy Sundaram Tagore Gallery/Artist Chun Kwang Aggregation series has long been synonymous with contemplative earthy tones and meditative restraint—muted browns, greys, and sepias echoing hanji's organic origins and the tactile intimacy of Korean tradition. Yet throughout his long, established career, the Korean master has also regularly evolved, slowly injecting colors into his creations. His most recent works, which will be on display at several galleries at Frieze Seoul and KIAF Seoul in September, showcase a profound chromatic awakening, demonstrating that at 81, the artist is still pushing himself to explore new chromatic territories. Courtesy Sundaram Tagore Gallery/Artist His once subdued surfaces now pulse with vibrant hues—saturated pinks, indigo blues, luminous yellows—each drawn from natural dyes like gardenia, safflower, turmeric, and sappanwood. The transformation is arresting. Where once Chun's triangular hanji parcels clustered in muted t...

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