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Storytelling through design is at the heart of Johannes Torpe’s practice

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How Chinese culture influenced Cartier

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Championing African Art: A Talk with Gallerist Kristin Hjellegjerde

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An Interview with Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra

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Connecting the Dots: Aric Chen Discusses Collectable Design in Asia

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Is there still anything new to learn about Leonardo da Vinci?

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Anish Kapoor talks about the Power of Concave Mirrors

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Local Projects reinvents how museum visitors interact with art, transforming them into curators

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Facts and Fictions: The Venice Biennale 2019

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T.O.P Calls on Friends for his guest-curated auction at Sotheby’s

Photographer: Hong Jang Hyun. Photo Production: Gary So @ Mad Carrot Production Paik Nam June, Fat Boy , 1997, Estimate: HK$3,500,000 – 4,500,000 / US$ 449,000 – 577,500 Korean rapper and actor Choi Seung-hyun, aka T.O.P has worked with Sotheby’s to guest-curate an evening sale of Western and Asian contemporary art in Hong Kong taking place on October 3.

Helen Britton, The Artist Jeweller

From a young age, Helen Britton used art as a form of communication and was soon making jewellery. She still has a cow horn bracelet she made when she was 12 and some earrings made from old beads and fuse wire. As an artist-jeweller, Britton approaches her practice without distinguishing between forms of creative production: “Some bodies of work contain jewellery, sculpture and drawings; some only one or another — it depends on what I am trying to say.” Britton is one of the world’s most established artist-jewellers and is known for creating colourful pieces that are just as likely to include recycled plastics as precious stones. “Preciousness is a construct and culturally driven. All materials are interesting and carry their stories with them,” she says. “I choose the materials because of what they have to say and for no other reason.” Over the years, she has set blackened silver rings with diamonds and sapphires, or combined silver and pearls with plastic or glass. Her creations are ...

The Ultimate Art Depot: Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

Space constraints may not come to mind when walking through Le Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York or the National Gallery in Singapore, yet most museums around the world share a common problem: their collections are far too big to be fully displayed within their walls. As a result the majority of most museum’s artworks languish far from the public eyes, often only accessible to art professional, historians and researchers. The Louvre in Paris displays about 9% of the 380,000 works of arts in its collection, while the V&A Collection in London shows about 24% of its “display” collection thanks to two locations (the V&A Galleries and the Museum of Childhood). In Singapore, the National Gallery shows about 10% of its collection of over 8,000 works in its long term exhibitions presented in the DBS Singapore Gallery and UOB Southeast Asia Gallery while some additional artworks may also be displayed in special or travelling exhibitions. While some ...

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