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Anish Kapoor: Blood, Sweat and Tears
Published in Asia Tatler, May 2014 Anish Kapoor, whose long, luminous career has made him a household name, talks about mystery, banality and the spaces in between Under the glass roof of Berlin’s...
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Tsang Kin-wah to Represent Hong Kong at the 56th Venice Biennale
Congratulations to Tsang Kin-wah who is to represent Hong Kong at the 56th Venice Biennale next year! The multi-media artist was selected by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and M+, Hong Kong’s...
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The Trend for Corporate Collecting
Throughout history tycoons, wealthy nobility and powerful bankers have patronized art, built museums, and amassed large collections, many of which now are accessible to the public in institutions the...
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Gerhard Richter at Fondation Beyeler
During Art Basel week recently I went to pay a visit to Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland’s most visited art museum, for the widely talked about Gerhard Richter exhibition, Pictures/Series. Put together...
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Fair by Design: Westbund Art and Design Fair
Published in Chinese in The Art Newspaper China, September 2014 We’ve seen the allure of status-boosting brand-name artists like Emin, Hirst, and Gormley in China, but does a Prouvé, Ponti, and...
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HK Autumn Exhibitions 2014: Walls, Landscapes & Dames
Published on ocula.com, 24 September 2014 Hong Kong seems to be growing out of its love affair with big brand artists, some of which have had about as much appeal as a vagazzler—overexposed, brash,...
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Overview: West Bund Art & Design Fair
Published on ocula.com, 3 October 2014 Hot on the heels of the recent ShContemporary, which seems to be dying a slow and embarrassing death– art works were held in customs, leaving booths bereft of...
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Sterling Work
America eats itself— or at least that’s what it looks like. Intestines of star-spangled fabric dangle from the ceiling of a large white room and drape over giant plush prostrate humanoid figures....
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Art Trends Now
Published in The Art Newspaper China, November 2014 The art market shows little sign of slowing down, particularly as oligarchs at auction continue to rack up records for high-end art works by American...
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The Rhode Show
Published on christies.com, November 14, 2014 On a bare grey painted wall in Hong Kong’s Lehmann Maupin gallery, Robin Rhode draws a simple crude outline of a car with a white piece of chalk. With...
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Occupational Art
Published on ocula.com, November 2014 A hastily cobbled together barricade dissects Connaught Road. It signals the beginning of the Occupy Central zone where for over eight weeks one of Hong Kong’s...
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Sophie Calle: Intimate Vision
Published in Hong Kong Tatler, December 2014. It would be hard to find clearer confirmation of Federico Fellini’s aphorism that all art is autobiographical than the work of Sophie Calle. For more than...
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Shanghai and the Social Factory: An Interview with Anselm Franke
Published on christies.com, December 17, 2014 Anselm Franke, curator of the Shanghai Biennale, talks about why he thinks the city and Chinese contemporary art reflect a society in the making. The...
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2015 Calendar
Published on ocula.com, 5 March, 2015 Remember that time Hong Kong was known only for its banking, pinky-ring-wearing English expats mourning the loss of the ol’ empire, overpriced real estate, and the...
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Post Art Basel HK: Rundown and Fair-tigued
Published on ocula.com, 20 March, 2015 Your head hurts; your liver no longer holds any value on the black market; your dignity is in tatters after falling down a flight of stairs in high heels at an...
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A conversation with Beatriz Milhazes
Published on ocula.com, 7 April, 2015 The space of White Cube in Hong Kong pulses with energy. Densely layered, vibrantly colourful works hang from the pristine walls on both floors. They are by one of...
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In Conversation: Thomas Demand
Published on ocula.com, 14 June, 2015 For two decades German-born artist Thomas Demand has captivated collectors and museums alike with his boundary pushing photography. With the dedication and single...
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Venice Biennale 2015 Preview Week
While the art fair is often seen as the whore, selling its wares to those who can afford them, the Venice Biennale has always been the lady of the art world. The most venerated of biennales dating back...
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Basel Tov!
Published on ocula.com, 10 July 2015 Another month, another art fair. With over 200 fairs held every year, I feel like a hamster stuck on an ever-spinning wheel. I just can’t seem to hop off, and after...
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A Life Aquatic : Interview with Hera Büyüktaşçiyan
Published by Art International, September 2015 Istanbul-based artist Hera Büyüktaşçıyan has a storyteller’s skill of imbuing the prosaic with a sense of poetry and beauty. With a few ordinary objects...
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