Author: Ann Williams

Hong Kong’s art season kicks off this week with the city’s first international cultural summit, bringing together influential figures from art, architecture, life sciences, gaming and technology. Organized by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) on March 24-26, a series of panel discussions are taking place at three venues: M+, Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) and Xiqu Center.The summit – aimed at cementing Hong Kong’s reputation as an art hub for East and West – also shone a spotlight on M+, which opened in 2021 when the city was essentially shut off from the world during the Covid-19 pandemic.…

Mary Boone, the famous New York saleswoman who went to prison for tax fraud, is the subject of a new Vampire Weekend song that shares her name. But the song is less an ode to his gallery, which has boosted the profiles of artists ranging from Barbara Kruger to Ai Weiwei, than an elegy to a New York era. The single, released this Thursday, only abstractly references Boone’s business and the subsequent scandal surrounding his personal finances, using his name primarily within a rhyming scheme. “Mary Boone, Mary Boone,” Vampire Weekend director Ezra Koenig can be heard chanting at various…

Art MarketTabish KhanExterior view of TJ Boutling, London. Courtesy of TJ Boulting. Although Mayfair is London’s most established commercial gallery area, it is far from the only art center in the British capital. Medium-sized galleries have sprung up in recent years in areas from Shoreditch to Southwark, but none like Fitzrovia, which is just north-east of Oxford Circus. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began to ease, galleries have flocked to the Gentile district in double digits, bolstering the area’s credentials as part of London’s commercial gallery scene, where established tastemakers meet emerging trendsetters. Fitzrovia is known for having a mix of…

Inaugural works of Small Worldthe latest biennial in Taipei, which closed on Sunday, the provocative exhibits are as remarkable as they ever get: first, a section featuring pioneering Palestinian digital artist Samia Halaby, then a wall of Hsu Tsun-Hsu’s photographs documenting Taiwan’s passage through the military dictatorship. To the prosperous democracy in the 1990s.Palestinian curator Reem Shadid from Beirut, Taiwanese curator Freya Chou from Hong Kong and Taiwanese American writer Brian Kuan Wood from New York. Small World It applies insights from very small but conflicted places, like Taiwan and Palestine, to big questions about humanity, security, and community.”After that…

Hundreds of workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) recently went on strike in one of Canada’s most expensive cities in an effort to get higher wages. After ten months of negotiations, members of Local 535 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) officially went on strike on March 26 after the museum’s latest offer was rejected. The union said the AGO’s “final” offer did not offer livable wages and included protections against hiring part-time workers, who make up 60 percent of the museum’s workforce. Related Articles Events co-ordinator Mark Thornberry has worked at the museum for 15…

CLEARING has announced the representation of the American painter Henry Curchod who lives in London. Curchod, recently “OH FORTUNE!” which he presented at the gallery’s New York location, he will hold another solo exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles in 2025.Born in Palo Alto, California in 1992, Curchod creates vivid paintings in which his subjects find themselves surrounded by exaggerated surroundings and diffuse backgrounds. He begins with sketches with oil sticks to create a basic background before applying turpentine with various tools for gesturing marks. He then finishes with oils and charcoal to refine the representation of his objects…

Edward Enninful is one of the great minds of our time. With an insatiable thirst for knowledge and “why?” with a passion for questioning, creativity flows constantly in his veins. Knees finds the greatest fulfillment in research, immersing himself in various cultures, especially art. Enninful seeks to understand “the mechanics of things” and studies “the masters and their brushstrokes,” among other things. Although her career has taken her to the far corners of the fashion world, she is “as excited to see me as she is to go to the galleries. [designer] shows”. Art is essential to his quality of…

Hong Kong politicians first mooted the idea of ​​developing a world-class arts center on reclaimed land on the Kowloon peninsula in 1998, shortly after the former British colony was handed over to China. Advocates hailed Hong Kong as a “golden opportunity” that would put it on a par with other major cities, silencing criticism that it was a “cultural desert”. In 2008, the Hong Kong government provided the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority with an advance grant of HK$21.6 billion (US$2.8 billion) for the realization of the art center.The megaproject is now one of the largest cultural districts in the…

‣ The strange sales practices of Birkin bags are the stuff of legends and nightmares, so it is interesting that there is a complaint against Hermès for these sales practices. For that Fashion businessRobert Williams has the story: Lawyers for the plaintiffs say Hermès is in violation of US antitrust regulations, which define certain practices of bundling goods or bundling with other purchases as an abuse of market power. “The tying product, Birkin bags, is separate and distinct from the tying products, which are ancillary products that consumers are required to purchase,” the complaint states. “Plaintiffs have alternative choices for…

Undergraduate internships at the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian’s National Latino American Museum have been opened to students of all races, following the settlement of a lawsuit that said the program was discriminatory. CNN the reports The suit was filed in February by the Texas-based United States Alliance for Equal Rights against the museum’s director, Jorge Zamanillo, and Crosby Kemper, director of the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The lawsuit said the program had not hired any non-Latino interns since it began operating in 2022. Related Articles “When the alliance sued,” the American Alliance for Equal…